Bug#510544: Installer/partition guide tried to use 500GB as swap
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> On Sunday 11 January 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Yes, at above 4 TB in kB based (LVM/crypto) calculation and above 4 EB
>> in the MB based case. I wonder what would be the overhead
>
> I'm not going to worry about 4TB support at this point.
>
>> >> I think it would be more logical to specify unlimited as 0 or -1. Or
>> >> even some string like "none".
>> >
>> > A patch to change this turns out to be fairly trivial. Comments?
>> > Successfully tested for both regular and LVM partitioning (though not
>> > with >1TB disk).
>>
>> Tested with 1.6 TB atomic, and it works OK.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Otavio: OK if I upload with my patches?
> I'm more comfortable with this patch than with Ferenc's one, although that
> does still look OK to me for Squeeze.
Sure, please go ahead.
Thanks to you and Ferenc by the all the work.
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