Re: Swap partition.

Tim Fletcher (tim@night-shade.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:19:45 +0100 (BST)

> 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 ?

2 ways to do so:

1. 2 swap partions of 128 meg
2. Upgrade to Kernel 2.2 and all the support packages off redhats ftp site

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