<div>This explains it. I was taking a linux test and it said:</div>
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<div>What do you need if you want 512MB of swap space?</div>
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<div>- A 512MB free partition (or 512MB free space on an existing filesystem)</div>
<div>- 4 free partitions with ....<br>- ....</div>
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<div>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 Must have been really out of date as I started using Linux in the late versions of 2.2 and that was a LONG time ago...</div>
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<div>Brock<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Carlson</b> <<a href="mailto:thecubic@thecubic.net">thecubic@thecubic.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The old-style swap partition could only use 128M per partition (32 partitions<br>total) and 2G total. Only applies to
2.2 or earlier.<br><br>-Dave<br><br>On Tuesday 23 January 2007 14:20, Brock Noland wrote:<br>> I assume years ago there at sometime a quite low limit on swap partition or<br>> file size? Does anyone know the versions and amounts of this?
<br>><br>> Brock<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>