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From: briggs@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Swap partition size?
Date: 24 Mar 1994 20:41:11 GMT
Organization: ACM Student Machine
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References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <1994Mar17.032150.2147@dde.dk> <1994Mar24.161735.2609@physchem.ox.ac.uk> <michaelv.764539942@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>
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In article <michaelv.764539942@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu>,
Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu> wrote:
>In <1994Mar24.161735.2609@physchem.ox.ac.uk>,
>mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark Jackson) writes:
>>I just created a 32MB swap partition, I did mkswap and it reported 32MB,
>
>Are you sure you didn't just create a 32768 *block* partition?
>Blocksize is (generally) 512 bytes, or 1/2 a kilobyte. 32768 blocks
>would equal 16384 megabytes.
^ k or meg ? ;-)
>>but when I did swapon, it only reported 16380k. Is this talking about WORDS
>>or BYTES? ^k or meg?
>
>A 16k or 32k swap partition would be worthless. ;-)
16k would be useless, but 16380k is about 16MB.
In general, though, I think you're right. It looks like Mark created a
32kilo-block (sic), or 16MB partition.
-allen
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