Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:21:33 +0100 | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: Big Swap... |
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> However, on a Sun 4/670MP, which is sun4m architecture and I thought was > 8k pages; it will not let me make a swap partition bigger than 130752k as if it > has 4k pages when it should let me make 523648k swap partitions. Eight of > those would just about get me where I need to be on this particular machine.
sun4m has 4k pages, so v0 style partitions are really limited to ~ 128k.
> > I've got 2.2.14 on this box, can anybody tell me what I've got to do to > make bigger than 130MB swap partitions? Thanks. > > If I need a newer, bigger, better utility, where to get it would also be > appreciated.
Grab recent util-linux, say 2.9w has it for sure. If you run RHL, look into 6.1 RPMS, if you run Debian, I'm pretty sure they have it packaged as well.
Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj Linux version 2.3.39 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________
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