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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: Separate ACPI_SLEEP and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND options 
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> said:

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> > What happens on a machine which is sharing swap space between two
> > operating systems?  Do we have a way to mark a swap partition which is
> > used for suspend data as unusable?  Maybe we could change the
> > partition type from 82 to something else.
> 
> swsusp changes swap's signature, so swapon will fail.

Yes, but AFAIU the way to use it with "other" OSes is to generate the swap
space on boot, so this is irrelevant.
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