On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 04:54:28PM -0500, Phil Doroff wrote:
> Strange,
>
> have you tried mkswap -v2? (man is your friend)
-v0 Create an old style swap area.
-v1 Create a new style swap area.
If no -v option is given, mkswap will default to new style, but use old style if the current kernel is older than 2.1.117 (and also if PAGE_SIZE
is less than 2048). The new style header does not touch the first block, so may be preferable, in case you have a boot loader or disk label
there. If you need to use both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels, use the -v0 option when creating the swapspace.
mkswap --help
Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name [blocks]
there is no -v2, even in the latest version (2.11u, released Aug 3, 2002)
unless your distribution did something funny.
>
> In any case, IMO 1.6GB of swap is beyond silly, your system will be useless
> by the time it fills up half of that. :)
Not necessarily.
>
> -Phil
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