[plug] Sharing swap partition

[The Thought Assassin]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Bret Busby wrote:
> To maximise the limited space of the 8GB under which the boot partitions
> need to be installed, we wonder whether a 128MB swap partition could be
> created and shared between RH7.3 and Debian spud.

It certainly can. A swap partition is virtual RAM, so the kernel treats it
as if all the data from it is lost on reboot - so it will not notice at
all if another OS has altered the data on the partition between boots.

-Greg