Multiple linux sharing one common swap

[alex]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:

>>Could it be that the common shared swap is being ignored and each Linux
>>steals some swap space from it's own root partition thus making it
>>appear that there's a space between root partitions?  
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>I also use the same swap space between multiple Linux partition
>without any problems.
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It's not that my linuxes don't work, it's just that something created 
extra space between active
partitions where originally, the partitions were contiguous.  The spaces 
developed sometime later
but there's no problem in the operation in any Linux that I can detect..

I originally said that the gaps were about 20 MB but on further check 
with cfdisk, I see they're only 40 KB.

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