YDL 2.3 Partition size issues ?

[Rick Thomas]

I read the same thing, but on further exploration (I don't remember the
URL off hand -- Sorry!) I found that there are two different formats for
swap partitions.  The "old" format couldn't support more than 128 MB per
partition due to some silly field size restriction ("Who would _ever_
need more than 128 MB of swap!!??").  The "new" format did away with
that restriction.  All modern Linux kernels use the "new" format.

Isn't folklore wonderful?

Rick


"Michael H. Martel" wrote:

> > - Why two 128MB swap partitions and not a single 256MB one?
> 
> Somewhere along the line I thought I recalled that Linux could only support
> a 127mb swap partition.  So I tend to create multiple swaps each of
> 127mb's.  I actually thoguht about creating a single one and decidedc
> against it.