swap space

[Derek Broughton]

Liam Proven wrote:

> However, the caveat you've been given applies: *do not* use
> hibernation if several distros share a single swap partition. If you
> restart a different distro, Bad Things would be very likely to happen
> and might destroy both distros.

Bad Things shouldn't happen.  You boot, it checks swap for a hibernation
signature, compares it to the running kernel, and aborts the resume if the
kernels differ.  I'm not sure what it does you boot the same kernel with
different root partitions (I'm not stupid enough to try...), but one would
hope it does the same.

In any case, even if the resume is aborted, you're then booting into a
situation where it's as if you powered the machine off without going
through a proper shutdown, but all the filesystems were synced before
hibernating so nothing terrible should happen.
-- 
derek