swap space

[Steve Flynn]

On Dec 19, 2007 4:04 PM,  <Michael.Coll-Barth at verizonwireless.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I am in the process of building a new machine that will have several
> different OSes installed for different purposes.  WIN XP, Ubuntu 7.10
> and Fedora 8 are already installed and working with at least two other
> flavors of Linux coming.  Only one OS will be booted at any given time,
> no VM Ware here...
>
> The question of the day; can I safely have a single swap space that is
> shared by the different flavors of Linux?  Do I need to do anything
> special to the space and or settings of the OS to do this?

Yes - there should be no issues providing you don't expect
suspend/resume to handle the machine being suspended in one flavour
and resuming in another flavour.

Don't share /tmp though.

-- 
Steve
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