Re: Booting to >8GB...

Steve Dodd (steved@loth.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 29 Apr 2000 17:29:37 +0100


On Sat, Apr 29, 2000 at 10:40:24AM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:

> 1. /dev/hda1 is a Linux Swap partition of just under 128M
> (not more than 130,950 blocks) in size, starting at
> cylinder 1.
[..]
> Also, with modern drive sizes, even a maximum sized swap
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> partition does not significantly reduce the capacity of
[..]

AFAICR the 128Mb limit on swap partitions went away years ago. man mkswap.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/