Sharing Linux swap space on FreeBSD 4.9

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 13), Richard Liang said:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am trying to enable the linux swap space I have under Red Hat on FreeBSD 
> 4.9.  My disk configuration looks like:
> 
> ad0:
> s1 - NTFS
> s2 - Windows extended
> s3 - ext3
> s4 - linux swap
> 
> So I read the HOWTO on the internet about sharing the swap space; and
> with it's help I can now swap on the BSD swap space from Linux. 
> However, the HOWTO only says that "FreeBSD can swap on any partition"
> without saying how to do it.
> 
> So I've tried "swapon /dev/ad0s4" from FreeBSD and it always says:
> swapon: /dev/ad0s4: Device not configured
> I poked around my kernel config file, and changed the NSWAPDEVS variable to 
> 2; still no luck.

You sure swap is on primary fdisk partition 4, and not extended
partition 1 (aka s5) ?  I think Linux will create an extended partition
rather than use up all four primaries.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com