RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > What prospect of sharing swap space between MacOS X and linux in dual/multi
> > boot machines?
>
> I don't know the details, but I know that you must run mkswap on a new
> swap partition. Since I don't imagine any particular effort has been put
> in to keeping Linux and BSD mkswap's compatible, I doubt it would be
> possible.

Then run `mkswap' (or whatever it's called in your-other-OS) in one of the
boot scripts.

I've been using a similar scheme to share the swap partition for Linux/m68k
and AmigaOS VMM040, many years ago.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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