more then one swap partition?

SLaCk_KiD · 06-21-2003, 02:25 PM

ok, if i am running gentoo and slackware on one machine, not at the same time obviously, do i need a swap spac for each one considering its only getting used by one distro at a time??? it would seem logical to me that one swap partition for an infinite number of distros would suffice, because again only one distro is getting used at one time. am i thinking correctly about this?? thanks guys!

2damncommon · 06-21-2003, 02:31 PM

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it would seem logical to me that one swap partition for an infinite number of distros would suffice,

Unless there is some reason you want different size swap, you are correct.

fancypiper · 06-21-2003, 02:40 PM

I have heard that if you have two hard drives that it is a good idea to have a swap on each, but I don't since my swap is so seldom used.

I only use one swap for all my installed distros.

trickykid · 06-21-2003, 04:44 PM

I would deem it as a waste of space really if you did create two different swaps for each OS, when only one would be used at any given time in which there aren't any problems in doing this. I'm with fancy, when I had multiple distro's on one machine at one time, I only had one swap setup for all to use.

fancypiper · 06-21-2003, 05:00 PM

I use common swap, /boot, /home and /pub partitions and make just a / for each distro.

Watch the kernel names in /boot and have a backup of your /boot so when you install another distro, you can add your new distro to /boot/grub/grub.conf of your backup, copy the stuff you need with proper name changing of kernels, maps, etc. to that backup so you can boot all of them, then moving it all back to /boot.

That way, the automated stuff like Red Hat and Mandrake installs won't screw the previous installs.

SLaCk_KiD · 06-22-2003, 10:50 PM

thanks guys you answered my ?'s