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- From: seidl@alw.nih.gov (Edward Seidl)
- Subject: Re: swap partitions bigger than 16M???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.141306.9596@alw.nih.gov>
- Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
- Organization: National Inst. of Health, DCRT, CSL
- References: <726137676.AA29981@remote.halcyon.com> <C0C006.Bot@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 14:13:06 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <C0C006.Bot@ra.nrl.navy.mil>, eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) writes:
- |> 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
- |> --
- |> Eric Youngdale
-
- Thanks to all who e-mailed me on this one. Word from God himself (i.e. Linus)
- is that 16M is the limit for now, but he may get around to bumping it up in
- several months. He gave me hints on how to do it myself, though, so I'm going
- to roll up my sleeves and start hacking around in the mm source. If I get
- anything working (and if there's interest) I'll post the diffs...and send them
- to Linus. If I don't get anything working...
- Anyway, don't hold your collectivebreath, my first two stabs at it have failed
- spectacularly :-{
-
-
- --
- Edward Seidl DCRT/CSL Bldg 12A, Rm 2033
- seidl@alw.nih.gov NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892
-
- I'm not paid enough to have an opinion, much less express one for my employer.
-