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Re: [SLE] Why have swap
- From: H du Plooy <linuser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:20:29 +0200
- Message-id: <1062256828.17695.784.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 21:31, lee wrote:
> "In Linux, a single swap partition can not be larger than 128 MB. That is, the
> partition may be larger than 128 MB, but excess space is never used. If you
> want more than 128 MB of swap, you have to create multiple swap partitions. "
>
> Is this statement true ? A max of 128 mg of swap ?
That is rubbish - where did you read that? According to xosview, I'm
currently using 153mb which is about half of my swap partition.
>From what I remember (please correct me if I'm wrong) the max size for
the swap filesystem is 2gb, which is where you would make multiple swap
partitions if you need more swap space.
Hans
> "In Linux, a single swap partition can not be larger than 128 MB. That is, the
> partition may be larger than 128 MB, but excess space is never used. If you
> want more than 128 MB of swap, you have to create multiple swap partitions. "
>
> Is this statement true ? A max of 128 mg of swap ?
That is rubbish - where did you read that? According to xosview, I'm
currently using 153mb which is about half of my swap partition.
>From what I remember (please correct me if I'm wrong) the max size for
the swap filesystem is 2gb, which is where you would make multiple swap
partitions if you need more swap space.
Hans
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