>   Big question.  Real curios about this.  I'm tired of wasting 256Megs
>   for 2 swap partitions, one for NetBSD, one for linux.  Can I just use
>   the partition set aside for linux as my swap in NetBSD?  Do I just
>   set that in the fstab file?  Will NetBSD recognize that partition since
>   it has the Linux-swap partition identifier?

I believe you should be able to just make the b partition of your
disklabel map to the Linux swap area even though it is out of the
NetBSD partition.  I access the DOS partition this way, why not the
Linux swap partition!

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