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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Swap partition size?
Date: 24 Mar 94 20:12:22 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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References: <1994Mar8.141900.2906@wubios.wustl.edu> <2lk1jm$aor@simpson-01.cs.strath.ac.uk> <CMK8E9.EM5@eskimo.com> <1994Mar17.032150.2147@dde.dk> <1994Mar24.161735.2609@physchem.ox.ac.uk>
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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.
>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. ;-)
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