This explains it. I was taking a linux test and it said: What do you need if you want 512MB of swap space? - A 512MB free partition (or 512MB free space on an existing filesystem) - 4 free partitions with .... - .... I clicked A without even reading the rest as it seemed obvivious and got it wrong. Must have been really out of date as I started using Linux in the late versions of 2.2 and that was a LONG time ago... Brock On 1/23/07, Dave Carlson <thecubic at thecubic.net> wrote: > > The old-style swap partition could only use 128M per partition (32 > partitions > total) and 2G total. Only applies to 2.2 or earlier. > > -Dave > > On Tuesday 23 January 2007 14:20, Brock Noland wrote: > > I assume years ago there at sometime a quite low limit on swap partition > or > > file size? Does anyone know the versions and amounts of this? > > > > Brock > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070123/d64d3a03/attachment.htm