Re: ULTRA DMA HDD

Juan Jose Quintela (quintela@dc.fi.udc.es)
Fri, 3 Oct 1997 22:48:09 +0200 (CEST)


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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Tim Hawes 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.

I don't think so, my swap partition:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda2 27 27 59 66528 82 Linux swap

More than 16MB, the 16MB limit is an very old limit, I don't remember
since what version is no limit, but I think that is previous to the 2.0.0
kernel.

- From the mkswap man page:

As each block is 1kB large, the swap area in this example
could have a size that is anywhere in the range from 40kB
up to 127.6875MB.

The man page is from Linus Torvalds, Linux 1.0 and tje date 8 February
1995.

Then This is not a problem. With respect at the rests of problems, I'm
sorry but don't know the solution.

Cheers, Juan Quintela.

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Juan Jose Quintela Computer Science Ph.D. student
LFCIA, University of A Corunna http://www.dc.fi.udc.es/~quintela
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