On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Sean O Ceallaigh wrote:
Hi,
I've got a spare 2 Gig partition on my drive that I had been using for BeOS. So I've been using LILO to boot between SuSE 6.3 and BeOS. I've recently got Slackware7 and wanted to install it over the BeOS. My question is this:
Can I share the same swap partition between SuSE Linux and Slackware Linux? It seems like it would be no problem.
Sure that won't be a problem. Swap partition between distros on the same machine works great. You can even mount the other / partition from the other distro running, but I won't try running programs from it, just for access data, like personal files. Like mounting your /home directory for your normal user account, that is really nice because all you files are their no matter what distro booted and running. Don't try running programs, the libraries /could/ be differant, programs could be differant version and things like that, worst case it could trash some data base or config files, don't do it. What I personally did was create 4 partitions. 1 swap, 1 home, 1 root for Debian, 1 root for SuSE. When it booted to SuSE it would mount 1 of the root partitons, mount the /home directory and also the swap. When Debian booted it would mount the other / partiton, the /home directory and also the swap. It was really nice, since when I write to my home directory and all my files where there no matter way what distro I was booted to. This does require re-partition your drive, so I would recommened against it, unless you have a backup and are comfortable with it. Most importantly, if you do - do this, understand that it is at your own risk. Jack
Thanks,
Sean
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