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Re: trouble with fdisk and activate the swap



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On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Michael Konrad wrote:

> I always set up my swap partition as a primary partition and I don't
> have that problem. I can never read the blocks right, but it looks like
> the swap partition is more than 128MB. You can set up multiple swap
> partitions but they can not be more than 128MB.

The new style swap area (you need a recent kernel and mkswap. 2.2.x and
potato's are sufficient) can support much larger areas, depending on the
arch (sparc64 can use 3TB! i386 can use 2GB)


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