> Is there a "native" swap format for the Hurd, if you know what I mean? I'm > not running Linux on this machine at all, so making the swap partition of > type 82 was just because I didn't know how to make a "native" swap > partition.
The "native format" for swap is some pages on a disk. The Hurd is quite happy to use an entire partition; it only checks for the Linux "swap signature page" for compatibility with Linux.
