From: Matthias Urlichs (urlichs@smurf.sub.org)
Date: 02/10/93 

From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Subject: Re: Compiling Kernels
Date: 11 Feb 1993 00:01:19 +0100

In comp.os.linux, article <1993Feb8.173259.3267@colorado.edu>,
  drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
>
> To make a file :
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=<size in k> of=/swap
> mkswap /swap <size in k>
>
This will make a swap file of which the upper three fourths are unused.
Use bs=1024 instead. 

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