From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: Swap partition != available swap space Date: 29 Jan 1993 09:50:31 -0600
darin@infograph.com (Darin Wayrynen) writes:
>I have partitioned my SCSI hard disk to leave 32 megabytes left over
>for swap space. When I use the swap partition Linux will only install
>16 megabytes of it.
>Is this related to the 'only use 16 megs of physical ram' question
>that comes up during kernel configuration? Or ????
No, Linus just decided to limit swap space to 16M per partition. I don't
really agree with this myself, but it seems to work.
The only real solution you have is to make multiple partitions of 16M for
swap and then mount them on.
James