Re: [TCLUG:17578] Partition: swap

[Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070@tc.umn.edu>]

On Fri, 12 May 2000, David Wood wrote:

> > > I think someone made a 2GB swap partition as a demonstration, last time
> > this
> 
> 2gig? hell no :)
> 
> [jbevren@cerberus jbevren]$ df
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1               349910    139145    192694  42% /
> /dev/sdb6              1492311   1149619    265582  81% /usr
> /dev/sdb5              1492311   1088074    327127  77% /home
> /dev/sdc1              8636299   4527331   3661072  55% /archive
> /dev/sda6              1608697     66927   1458636   4% /opt
> [jbevren@cerberus jbevren]$ 
> 
> Have a close look at /dev/sdc1 :) That's a lot more than 2gb :)

I guess nits are in season, because I found one to pick.  I don't believe
/dev/sdc1 is a swap partition.  If you were talking about ext2 limitation,
that's different, but it's unclear from the prefacing remarks.

Cheers,

Phil M

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