Re: Adding more than 8 swap partitions

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Thu, 20 May 1999 14:28:49 +0100 (GMT)


On Wed, 19 May 1999, Peter Rival wrote:

> I just wanted to make sure that I can add more than 8 swap partitions
> under 2.2.8 by only changing the MAX_SWAPFILES #define in
> include/linux/swap.h.

You should be fine, although:

> What is the maximum limit?

It's 2Gb in 2.2, although I think you may need a new mkswap.

Matthew.

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