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Create swap partition after install
I already have parititon contain data under lvm enviroment with centos 5.8
output of fdisk -l
root@server [~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, ...
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Why my partitions don't show the right capacity on a 4096 byte physical block hard drive?
After reading a lot about why newer 4096 byte physical block hard drives should be partitioned taking care of alignment (Linux on 4KB-sector disks: Practical advice, What is partition alignment and ...
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Does mkswap check that a partition is a swap partition before formatting it?
I checked the man page for mkswap and was left confused whether mkswap tests whether a partition is of type 82 before formatting it.
Background: I am using Ubuntu 11.04, and I had just set up my swap ...
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Are there any side effects when two distros share a swap partition?
In order to save disk space, I want to have two OS installations share a single swap partition (a dual-boot). Is this a good idea?
