Singlr Swap Partiotion for Multiple Linuxes?

sarmadys · 10-09-2003, 01:40 PM

Hello,

For a specific reason I will have two linuxes on a single hard drive.

Is it possible to use a single swap partition for both of them or they should be different (does linux put something special there which will need to see it next time it boots)?

Regards,
Mac

trickykid · 10-09-2003, 01:42 PM

Go for it.. no problems there and don't need anything special for swap. At times you can even share /home and /tmp directories, that's if you create them on their own partitions, etc.

trickykid · 10-09-2003, 01:43 PM

Sorry, about the special something when your booting, make sure you have your fstab file pointing to the correct location for swap, that's all really.

sarmadys · 10-09-2003, 01:48 PM

trickykid,

Thank you for your help. Actually I have a real linux installation and another Linux running on VMWare (Windows Version) and I am going to install the VMWare Linux into physical partition instead of a File Emulated Hard Disk. But I wanted to share my swap between these two.

Best Regards,
Mac