Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Robert Lewis <rll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Knott wrote:
> Hans du Plooy wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 01:57 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>     
>>>> Does the 2gb limit on swap filesystem still apply?  Or did I get lost in
>>>> kernel 2.2 days?
>>>>         
>>> No, I have a 6 GiB swap.
>>>       
>> Sorry, I worded my question poorly.  I know you can make more than 2GB,
>> I have several servers with 4GB.
>>
>> What I meant is is the size of a single swap partition still limited to
>> 2GB?
>>
>> Reason I'm asking is that I want to get suspend (to ram and to disc)
>> working on my notebook, which has 2GB RAM, so I need at least 2GB swap.
>>     
>
> You can have multiple swap partitions and even use swap files.
>   
This is probably picky.  But I think the subject line for this
discussion is incorrect.
Swap is not a filesystem.  It does take a partition but it is raw disk
storage not
a filesystem as far as I know.