On 4/24/07, Alexander Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jan Stary wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I am trying to share swap between OpenBSD 4.0/i386 and FreeBSD,
> on a Dell laptop. I have sliced the disk as
>
> Disk: wd0 geometry: 41344/15/63 [39070080 Sectors]
> Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55
> Starting Ending LBA Info:
> #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0: A5 0 1 1 - 22191 14 63 [ 63: 20971377 ] FreeBSD
> *1: A6 22192 0 1 - 39944 14 63 [ 20971440: 16776585 ] OpenBSD
> 2: 82 39945 0 1 - 41053 14 63 [ 37748025: 1048005 ] OpenBSD
> 3: 82 41054 0 1 - 41343 14 63 [ 38796030: 274050 ] OpenBSD
>
> and I try to make both systems use partiton 3 as their swap.
>
I'm not sure this is really recommended. I *think* that each "slice" gets
its own disklabel, and only one disklabel per disk is used. I'd use only
one 'OpenBSD' partition.
Nagging point: iirc, the disklabel is written immediately after the
master boot record. I know for sure there is only one disklabel per
disk (because you use disklabel as `disklabel $DISK`). This is not the
same as "each slice gets it's own disklabel"; it's the other way
around, each slice gets an entry in the disklabel.
-Nick
