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Re: [SLE] swap filesystem size limit?
- From: James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 11:30:06 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <45263E29.70102@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.
> 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.
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