Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:25:33 -0800 (PST) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [announce] swap mini-howto |
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On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Andries Brouwer wrote:
| On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:58:27PM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | > http://www.xenotime.net/linux/swap-mini-howto.txt | | Maybe either refer to 'man mkswap' or add a sentence | about versions. (If you boot both 2.0 and 2.2 then | use mkswap -v0 to get swap space also 2.0 can use.) Will do.
BTW, my current (maybe outdated?) mkswap.8 page says: Presently, Linux allows 8 swap areas. The areas in use can be seen in the file /proc/swaps (since 2.1.25).
However, the current (2.5) source code supports 32 swap areas. I don't know when this was changed...
-- ~Randy
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