Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:10:22 -0500 (EST) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Support for > 2GB swap partitions? |
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This was the problem, thanks!
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:34:38PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> I remember reading in the past that > 2GB swap partitions were supported >> in Linux as of recent util-linux packages with a 2.6 kernel or am I wrong? >> >> # fdisk -l >> /dev/sda2 17 526 4096575 82 Linux swap >> >> # top >> Mem: 2075192k total, 2062540k used, 12652k free, 64k buffers >> >> Only recognizes 2GB of 4GB? > > A swap partition has a swap header that specifies its size > (and possibly what bad blocks exist on the swap partition). > Thus, if you did mkswap long ago, the useful size will not > have changed. Do swapoff; mkswap; swapon and mkswap will > tell you how large a swap partition it made, and swapon > will cause the kernel to say how much swap space was added. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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