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:

> On 15 Oct 2003, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> 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)?

> OK, but as I understand things anaconda will not touch those as they do
> not have a linux swap partition signature. Is this incorrect??

Why wouldn't a swap partition in used by another virtual machine not
be marked as a swap partition?

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