Support for > 2GB swap partitions?

[Justin Piszcz]

I remember reading in the past that > 2GB swap partitions were supported 
in Linux as of recent util-linux packages with a 2.6 kernel or am I wrong?

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          16      128488+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2              17         526     4096575   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda3             527       30515   240886642+  83  Linux

# top
top - 19:33:43 up  3:26,  1 user,  load average: 1.33, 2.63, 1.66
Tasks: 166 total,   1 running, 165 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  9.1% us,  3.4% sy,  0.0% ni, 83.5% id,  1.8% wa,  0.1% hi,  2.2% si
Mem:   2075192k total,  2062540k used,    12652k free,       64k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,  1608272k cached


Only recognizes 2GB of 4GB?




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