When I installed Manjaro KDE, I already had Ubuntu with a swap partition created. However, I didn’t set it up correctly to use the same swap parition for both. I was wondering if I could set it to use that partition. It wouldn’t really use it much, as I set swappiness to 10, but I still want it set up if possible. I believe there was some things that Manjaro wouldn’t do with a swap partition that both operating systems use, but if memory serves, I didn’t want to use any of those options anyways.
Hibernation uses the swap partition - you can’t hibernate one system and then use the same swap partition in the other.
If you don’t hibernate it’ll work as @bogdancovaciu said.
This is how it created my swap partition when I installed Ubuntu. I am curious if I use the UUID of the sda4 “extended” partition, or the sda5 “linuxswap” partition.
Given that ‘hibernation’ is a rather special use case for me, I didn’t think a swap partition was so necessary. With my last install, I chose ‘no swap, no hibernate’ and had no problems.
Afterwards, I set up ‘swapfile’ and I can - if I so choose - hibernate with none of the drawbacks of needing a separate partition for the job.
With no partition for swap, you could install multiple systems with swapfiles and have no issues.
Of course - but that is not the case that was discussed here.
We here discussed the sharing of one single swap partition.
Which, with some additional effort, could also be a single swap file.
