Thanks to all who replied. Doug McGarrett wrote:
When I installed SuSE 9.3, I created a swap partition /dev/sda7. When I installed Fedora Core 4, I created a swap partition /dev/sda12.
Is it okay if I edit fstab in both SuSE and FC4 to load both these partitions as swap?
I have a feeling that the question being answered is not the question that might have been intended, to wit: "How can I use _one_ swap partition for two OS's? Particularly when each OS uses a different designation for the partition."
No, the question was answered correctly. Please see my original question above. I said that I have two swap partitions on my sda and wish to use both these for both my Linuxes. Thanks to you and Patrick for the related thought, anyway... :) -- Shriramana Sharma http://samvit.org (o- Penguin #395953 //\ running on ancient Indian wisdom V_/_ and modern computing efficiency