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kAldown

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Share FreeBSD swap partition with Arch

Hello.
This is my first day walking with Arch. Very likely I'll use this distro for a long time, it's very beauty

But now I faced some problem with systemd. Could someone tell me in two words, how could I run something like this:

mkswap /dev/sdaX
swapon /dev/sdaX

Just in case, /dev/sdaX was created in FreeBSD 10.1 enviroment, as soon as FreeBSD doesn't care, Arch want to swapfile been exactly with certain headers.
So I should implement this two lines above just before system calls `swapon -a`.

Would be very appreciate for any suggestion.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/216049/91378

Last edited by kAldown (2015-07-15 01:08:32)

jasonwryan

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Re: Share FreeBSD swap partition with Arch

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to Newbie Corner...

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kAldown

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Re: Share FreeBSD swap partition with Arch

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to Newbie Corner...

So that's not the case for This forum is for technical issues revolving around the ongoing maintenance and fine tuning of Arch systems. ?

jasonwryan

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Re: Share FreeBSD swap partition with Arch

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to Newbie Corner...

So that's not the case for This forum is for technical issues revolving around the ongoing maintenance and fine tuning of Arch systems. ?

Keep reading...

It is intended for challenging and interesting issues; solutions and posts here are expected to provide value to the more competent GNU/Linux users and established members of the community.

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drcouzelis

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Re: Share FreeBSD swap partition with Arch

Share FreeBSD swap partition with Arch

THAT'S DISGUSTING! That's like sharing chewed bubble gum.

...I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to your question, but I thought I'd point out: A couple years ago I deleted my swap partition. I don't use swap any more, just my regular 4 GB of RAM. I don't miss having swap space at all. And if I do want swap space, I can follow the Arch Wiki and create a "swap file" without even needing to use a separate partition.

ANOKNUSA

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Re: Share FreeBSD swap partition with Arch

Could someone tell me in two words, how could I run something like this...

You can't.

The Linux and FreeBSD kernels handle swap in fundamentally different ways, so you can't share a swap partition between the two. Seconding what drcouzelis said, if you have a desktop or laptop with 4G of RAM or more, swap is almost certainly unnecessary anyway.

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