Dual Boot: possible to use the same swap partition ?

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Sat Oct 23 16:44:42 UTC 2021


On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 10:58, Lentes, Bernd
<bernd.lentes at helmholtz-muenchen.de> wrote:
>
> we have a Dual Boot system with 16.04 and 20.04.
> Is it possible to use the same swap partition ?

Yes, no problem. I do this routinely.

You can also share a /home partition so long as you use different usernames.

One caveat: if you use hibernation this will cause problems. If you
don't, then no problem.


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