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Hello everyone,
I was hoping to do a dual boot on a HP laptop with Scientific Linux and Ubuntu. However, I'm not sure how to arrange the partitions and swap ...
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Sharing Linux Swap?
Hello everyone,
I was hoping to do a dual boot on a HP laptop with Scientific Linux and Ubuntu. However, I'm not sure how to arrange the partitions and swap space. Can the two distros share a single swap space? If not, how do I go about the installation?
- 11-11-2011 #2forum.guy
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Hello
Originally Posted by Hevlic 
Yes, all Linux distros on a drive can share the same swap partition. During the installation, let the installer know that you want to use the existing swap partition.oz
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