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linux + bsd + solaris
I prepare to install linux distros , freebsd and solaris(totally 6 OS) in a 40G harddisk, but I fail to do it, so I would like to ask some question here.

Can different distros share the same linux swap?or each distros need to have their own?

I made 6 partitions(5 x 7G , 1 x 4G) and 256M(I have 128M RAM)for linux swap by RH(manually partition), am I did it right? If not , can anyone tell me how to do?

I tried to install RH Linux first, then label and format the partition as'/ ' , is there necessary to format an extra partition for '/usr' or '/home' too?

Aften installed RH, I installed Mandrake, but I failed to boot multi os up by lilo loader, is that I didn't created its own swap space?
Am I need another boot manager to help me?

Sorry that my question pretty newbie because this is my first step for Unix/Linux.

Is there anyone can help and teach me how to do step by step?

Many thx.



 
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swaplabel

SWAPLABEL(8)						       System Administration						      SWAPLABEL(8)

NAME

       swaplabel - print or change the label or UUID of a swap area

SYNOPSIS

       swaplabel [-L label] [-U UUID] device

DESCRIPTION

       swaplabel will display or change the label or UUID of a swap partition located on device (or regular file).

       If the optional arguments -L and -U are not given, swaplabel will simply display the current swap-area label and UUID of device.

       If  an  optional argument is present, then swaplabel will change the appropriate value on device.  These values can also be set during swap
       creation using mkswap(8).  The swaplabel utility allows to change the label or UUID on an actively used swap device.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Display help text and exit.

       -L, --label label
	      Specify a new label for the device.  Swap partition labels can be at most 16 characters long.  If label is longer  than  16  charac-
	      ters, swaplabel will truncate it and print a warning message.

       -U, --uuid UUID
	      Specify a new UUID for the device.  The  UUID must be in the standard 8-4-4-4-12 character format, such as is output by uuidgen(1).

AUTHOR

       swaplabel was written by Jason Borden <jborden@bluehost.com> and Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.

ENVIRONMENT

       LIBBLKID_DEBUG=0xffff
	      enables debug output.

AVAILABILITY

       The swaplabel command is part of the util-linux package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO

       mkswap(8), swapon(8), uuidgen(1)

util-linux							    April 2010							      SWAPLABEL(8)