> > > Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but
> > > in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were
> > > involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers
> > > on disk won't match with saved ones.
> >
> > 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.
Aren't there some OSes that just blindly use the whole partition,
without looking for a swap signature? I suppose that's really a
problem that needs to be fixed with the other OS, though, to recognise
the swsusp signature and disable swapping during that boot.
John.
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