Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>]

	Subject: Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap
	Date: Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:57:58PM -0500

In reply to:Andrei Ivanov

Quoting Andrei Ivanov(c680789@showme.missouri.edu):
> > 
> > 	   Device Boot   Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> > 	   /dev/hda1   *        1     4063  2047720+  83  Linux native
> > 	   /dev/hda2         4064     8127  2048256   83  Linux native
> > 	   /dev/hda3         8128     8400   137592   82  Linux swap
> 
> Wrong. You created Swap as a primary partition, but it has to be logical.
> (/dev/hda4 it will be)
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^    

Why is this wrong?  I have looked at all the swap man pages and find
no mention of having to use a logical partition.  I also found no 
reference to that in any of the kernel Doc pages.  In fact here is an
excerpt from the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt
        /dev/hda1 from cyl    1 to  992         dos
        /dev/hda2 from cyl  993 to 1023         swap
        /dev/hda3 from cyl 1024 to 2100         linux

I was supprised to learn from this search, that the swap partition can 
be as large as 2 Gig, in the 2.2.x kernels.

Could you please point me to some references for your statement?

Thanks

Wayne

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