On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 04:16:16PM -0500, Yaron wrote:
>   Hey,
>
> Here:
> 
> dragon# fdisk -l /dev/hda | grep hda2
> /dev/hda2            10       219   1686825   82  Linux swap
> dragon# mkswap -v1 -v -c /dev/hda2
> mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to 130752kB
> Setting up swapspace version 0, size = 133885952 bytes
> 
> 1.6GB partition, mkswap truncating to 128Mb.
> 

This is more useful than 'it doesn't work' =)


> This is with kernel 2.4.18, debian/sid, util-linux (where I think
> mkswap comes from) version 2.11n-4.

Damned debian ;)

Try compiling your own copy of util-linux, and make sure that your
kernel headers are correct.

> 
> 
> > I am wondering why you need 1.6 GB of swap.
> 
> Cause swap should be 1.6*total RAM, of course! (:
> 
> 
> -Yaron

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