> 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
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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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