On 14/07/07, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dotan Cohen writes: > sda1 is Ubuntu, sda2 is empty, sda3 is swap, and sda4 is /home. I'd > like to install Fedora to sda2 and use sda3 as swap for Fedora as > well. However, I'm concerned that when Ubuntu suspends it will dump > it's memory to swap, which Fedora will overwrite when I boot Fedora > (and vice versa). Is this a valid concern? Should I give each OS it's > own swap? Yes, it's a valid concern, and that's exactly what will happen, if you configure this partition as a swap partition, in Fedora.
Thanks. As I'm running out of disk space in /home, I'd rather not create another swap partition. Is it true that a swap file on the same disk as the file system performs as well as a swap partition? This machine has 2 GB of physical memory. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/ http://what-is-what.com/
