Re: Swap area: why not more than 128M each?

Werner Almesberger (almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 14:34:16 +0100 (MET)

Gabriele Paciucci wrote:
> Yes but you can use more 128M partitions!!!

Sigh, yes ...

Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 7 56196 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 8 8 24 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 25 25 41 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda4 42 42 526 3895762+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 43 43 59 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda6 60 60 76 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda7 77 77 93 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda8 94 94 110 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda9 111 111 127 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda10 128 128 144 136552+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda11 145 145 210 530145 83 Linux native
/dev/sda12 211 211 526 2538270 83 Linux native

That's a machine with 256 MB RAM. I always feel extremely stupid when my
auto-install script starts creating partitions in the two-digit range
just because of that darn swap limit ...

- Werner

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