swap space

[Liam Proven]

On 05/01/2008, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Hmm! Cogently argued. I confess I've not tried this; I only have 1 PC
notebook specced well enough to run Linux and it won't due to a broken
ACPI implementation. So, I've reluctantly reverted to Win2K Pro on it.
Never tried Linux suspend & resume; it doesn't work on that hardware.

But you make your point well, so I bow to your superior knowledge!

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