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Re: swap partition.



Hi

Jonathan Ben-Avraham wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Mike wrote:
> 
> > Hi list.
> > Is there a way to configure linux to use more then 128 MB swap space in one
> > partition ?
> > 
> > so instead of 10 partitions of 128MB i will have one of 1GB.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> 
> rtfm mkswap.
> no, unless you mean two swap files in one partition.

Actually, you can. I guess the man page is outdated (as is mine).
from KernelThreads no. 39 (at <http://kt.linuxcare.com>, which, BTW, is
recommended for everyone interested in kernel development and doesn't have
time to read linux-kernel), from an answer to MS's linux myths:
1. "The Linux SWAP file is limited to 128 MB RAM": Entirely untrue.
v0 swapfiles are limited to128 MB, v1 swapfiles have no limit.

I personally created and used a swap partition bigger than 128MB,
although not as big as 1GB. I don't know when those v1 swapfiles started,
but it works (as default) under 2.2.13.


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