I have both FreeBSD and NetBSD (1.3D which is being rebuilt as I type)
installed on my computer, and I am curious as to whether or not it is
possible to share a swap partition between both.  My current setup uses three
BIOS partitions on my hard disk, the first of which is a Windows NT
partition, the second is my FreeBSD partition, and the third is my FreeBSD
swap partition.

I boot NetBSD from a Jaz disk that is dedicated to it, and I can mount /home
and /usr/obj (among others) from the FreeBSD partition under NetBSD.  The
swap partition for NetBSD is also on the Jaz disk, and needless to say, I
could get much better performance (and disk utilization) if I could use my
FreeBSD swap partition with NetBSD.  Is this doable, or am I out of luck?

 -Patrick


Patrick L. Hartling			| Research Assistant, ICEMT
mystify@friley63.res.iastate.edu	| SE Lab - 1117 Black Engineering
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~oz	| http://www.icemt.iastate.edu