On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 02:45:20AM -0500, Jerry Winegarden wrote:
>
> On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Rick Knebel wrote:
> >
> > > When I installed I made a swap partition of 250 Megs, but it seems that
> > > linux is only showing 130 Megs.
> >
> > The max size of a Linux swap partition is 128 MB (really about 125 on most
> ^^^^^^
> NOPE
> > --
> > Todd A. Jacobs
> > Network Systems Engineer
> >
>
> This has been discussed recently on this list. It depends on which
> version of RedHat you have. Versions 6.x now support swap partitions
> of 2 Gigabytes!!! Previous limit 5.x and below: 128 MB. If you have
> 6.x, and you're having a swap partition size problem, then it's something
> besides running into a hard limit of 128 MB.
>
I think from memory the mkswap util in RH6.0 still defaults to a max of
128M (you have to force it to make larger swap partitions).
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