On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, legolas wood wrote:

> As linux use SWAP disks to store swap data and solaris partition type
> is SWAP too, how does linux distinguesh between them?

It (Linux) doesn't.  More recent versions of Solaris use a different
disk partition type, so that the confusion doesn't occur.  (Interesting
historical tidbit: Solaris actually used that partition type before
Linux, but the latter ursurped it for its own purpose.)

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