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SubjectRe: ULTRA DMA HDD
On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Nicholas J. Leon wrote:

> >Your Linux swap partition should not be any larger than 16 MB. You can set
> >up two swap partitions for Linux, or more if you feel you will need them.
> >I think the limit is 8 swap partitions.
>
> Why? (why no larger than 16) ?

This is not true anymore (hasn't been for a looong while). Very old
kernels only supported 16 Mb SWAP, but now it supports up to 128 MB (and
16 of those - 2Gb should be enough for most people).


Eirik Mikkelsen - eirikmik@stud.ntnu.no


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