Steven Augart wrote:
William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
How do I get more than 1 GB of swap space (or am I stuck there) ? Thanks again.
First, an easy hack is to add more swap partitions or swap files (if it's inconvenient to add a partition, you can create a physical file in the filesystem to swap to. You probably know this already.) If you are facing a limit of 1 GB, then add them 1 GB at a time. You can have multiple swap partitions going at the same time.
Second, are you facing the 1 GB limit in the "mkswap" command or in some higher-level tool? If higher level, then you might get it to work by using "mkswap".
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I was working through the installer & it wouldn't let me make a swap partition larger than 1 GB. I prefer partitions to files for swapping . I was really kinda asking if this was (still) a Linux limitation, it was in the past (actually the limit used to be 2 GB per swap device ....).