Joerg Schilling wrote: > "A. Stockinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> hi, >> >> after some experiences and some losts i have this triple boot. >> take a look at my partition list >> >> on top of the harddisk, the MBR master bootrecord >> primary partition #1 ntfs 20 GB >> primary partition #2 ext3 20GB >> primary partition #3 ufs 18 GB (activated) >> primary partition #4 linus swap 2GB >> > > I recommend to install Linux in an extended partition. > This gives less confusion. > > > BTW: UFS is (is from Solaris) not in a primary partition. > UFS is in one slice of the UNIX partition. > > P.S. it is a pitty that you cannot share the swap. >
You can if Linux swap is on a primary partition. On Solaris you can do swap -a /dev/dsk/cNdNpP 2048 Where P = number of Linux swap partition. Once extended partition support comes in this will work for Linux swap on extended as well. This avoids overwriting some header information that Linux maintains at the start of it's physical swap. Linux has the limitation of not being able to auto-generate this header if corrupted like Solaris. Regards, Moinak. > Jörg > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
