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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: swap partitions bigger than 16M???
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <726137676.AA29981@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:26:30 GMT
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- In article <726137676.AA29981@remote.halcyon.com> Jim.Lawhon@f6008.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Lawhon) writes:
- >To: seidl@alw.nih.gov (Edward Seidl)
- >
- > ES> Brief description of my problem: I configured my hard disk to
- > ES> have a 32M swap partition as /dev/hda2,
- > ES> did "mkswap /dev/hda2 32xxx", and then "swapon /dev/hda2".
- > ^^^^^
- > blocks
- >
- >One block = 512 bytes X 32xxx = 16M ...
-
- No! Edward had it right. You are confusing blocks and sectors.
- I believe that the problem is that there is a 16Mb limit to the size of a
- swap partition.
-
- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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