Swap Partition Question

snatale1 · 09-21-2003, 09:50 PM

I'm going to be installing debian as my second distro my main being RH9, when the installer runs and asks about my swap partition it sees my current one but says when I select it says all data will be destroyed!! Am I correct in thinking there is nothing on that partition as long as RH is not running or does it permanently store data there?

nouse66 · 09-21-2003, 10:10 PM

yes, you are correct. there's nothing permanent on the swap partition. i always share one swap partition when i have multiple distros installed.