In the rare situations where I multiboot, I sometimes use a system resume partition per distro and a larger shared one for tmpfs, etc. As long as you can boot without that swap, you can still force the the mount via the device name. <div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 28, 2011 10:45 PM, "Chick Tower" <<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I just learned something today. If you install more than one version or > distro of Linux to a PC, and the last installation insists upon > formatting the partitions you set up, you might have to modify your > fstab files in the other installations. I tried to use the same swap > partition with a new installation of CrunchBang Linux, which it insisted > it format. Since it was already a swap partition, I saw no harm in > that. However, when I booted the other Linux, it ran extremely slowly, > and I finally noticed that it had no swap. The original Linux > installation's fstab specified the partitions by UUID, and formatting > the swap partition changed its UUID, so I was painfully inconvenienced > the next time I tried doing much on the original Linux installation > since that PC has only 128MB of RAM. > -- > > Chick > _______________________________________________ > linux-user mailing list > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> </div>