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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Oct 15, 2003, Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> 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??

Ever heard of Plex86, VMware, clustered storage or any other cases in
which multiple OSs may be simultaneously sharing a single (set of)
disk(s)?

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