using swap on a separate slice

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Dec 19 05:31:31 PST 2006


On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:45:22AM +0300, Ja'far Railton wrote:
> I would like to make use of a swap slice left over from a Linux install
> (in order to free up the current DFly swap partition for other use).
> It is therefore an extended partion. I have googled this but need some
> pointers. Can anyone help me with this?

Extended partitions end up as ad?sX with X>=4. It should be the same
order as Linux otherwise.

Joerg





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