Anaconda Installer: Use of swap space on a multi-drive, multiboot system

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Wed Oct 15 20:18:51 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:05, Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Tom Diehl wrote:
> 
> > Well let me play devil's advocate and ask what are the downsides to having
> > it use/format a "linux swap partition" on another drive. Is there some other
> > potential use for it??
> 
> Solaris/x86 partitions are type 0x82, same as Linux swap.

Ah, but they don't have a swap filesystem, so they don't (shouldn't) get
considered :)

Cheers,

Jeremy





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