According to Dane Helm: While burning my CPU.
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> Is it possible to share a swap space? Say, for example, I have a 6.4gig
> hard drive....If I partition 3g for Red Hat and 3g for Slackware can I
> share the .4 remaining gig as 1 swap or would I split that into 2 .2g
> swaps..?
Yes you can use only one swap.
I have SuSe, Redhat, slackware and debian installed and only have one small
swap partition, but i ask myself why do the partitions have to be so big.
You could for example install your favorite system on a large partition and
install all the nessasary "public and user" programs on that system, then
just install the other system(s) and exclude the "extra" apps which are
installed on your favorite system, you then configure the system to use
each others partitions, which is what i do here. The main pointer is;
Senario;
Your favorite is Slackware, its root is mounted on "/" you want to mount
another partition on a 'mountpoint' (say for example) you have Redhat, so
you mount it on /redhat, all that is needed is a valid mountpoint in
slackware's root "/" called /redhat.
Mount the partition which has redhat on it in the /redhat dir. Now put
/redhat in your slackware path, (be carefull some things can be a security
issue), and make symlinks where nessacary to the "user programs" which are
on /slackware.
The mounting can be easily done via fstab at bootime.
This will save you Mb's of disk space, but will take you some time to set
it all up.
You will also run into a lot of unwanted problems, of which most are easaly
overcome, one large problem arrises if the different systems have
"incompatable libarary's".
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> Dane Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bremerton, WA
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