Re: Swap partition.

Mikhail Saykov (misho@setcom.bg)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:44:26 +0300

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Nicola Lamarca wrote:

> Hi all,
> probably it's an off topic, I'm sorry but I've an urgent need of
> your help. I've enlarged the memory of my proxy server (64 MB -> 128 MB)
> and I tried to double my swap partition (128 MB -> 256 MB), but, with my
> surprise, I recieved an error message from the RH5.2 disk partition
> utility: it seems that Linux can't handle swap partition larger than 128
> MB. Is there something I can do for having swaps of 256 MB or larger ?

Yes, You should make 2 different partitions 2 x 128 = 256 ;-)
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

... (another swaps)

>
>
> Thanks for your time.
> Best regards Nicola.
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Nicola Lamarca wrote:

Hi all,

        probably it's an off topic,
I'm sorry but I've an urgent need of

your help. I've enlarged the memory of my proxy server (64 MB -> 128
MB)

and I tried to double my swap partition (128 MB -> 256 MB), but, with
my

surprise, I recieved an error message from the RH5.2 disk partition

utility: it seems that Linux can't handle swap partition larger than
128

MB. Is there something I can do for having swaps of 256 MB or larger
?

Yes, You should make 2 different partitions 2 x 128 = 256 ;-)

/dev/hda1     swap     swap    
defaults     0    0

/dev/hda2     swap     swap    
defaults     0    0

... (another swaps)

 

 

Thanks for your time.

Best regards Nicola.

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