[patch] allow crash dumps to Linux swap partitions
Doug Barton
dougb at FreeBSD.org
Sat Jan 14 08:46:25 UTC 2012
On 01/09/2012 16:17, Don Lewis wrote:
> Looks like this is safe to do. There is some code in swaponsomething()
> to avoid the first two page-size blocks of the swap file to avoid
> overwriting the BSD label if the swap partition starts at sector zero of
> a BSD partition.
Confirmed. I switched my BSD swap partitions to the same one my linux
install is using, and I've booted back and forth several times now.
Doug
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