From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262014AbVAJAen (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:34:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262019AbVAJAen (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:34:43 -0500 Received: from lucidpixels.com ([66.45.37.187]:50312 "HELO lucidpixels.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262014AbVAJAek (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:34:40 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 19:34:38 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Piszcz X-X-Sender: jpiszcz@p500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Support for > 2GB swap partitions? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I remember reading in the past that > 2GB swap partitions were supported in Linux as of recent util-linux packages with a 2.6 kernel or am I wrong? # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 16 128488+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 17 526 4096575 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 527 30515 240886642+ 83 Linux # top top - 19:33:43 up 3:26, 1 user, load average: 1.33, 2.63, 1.66 Tasks: 166 total, 1 running, 165 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 9.1% us, 3.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 83.5% id, 1.8% wa, 0.1% hi, 2.2% si Mem: 2075192k total, 2062540k used, 12652k free, 64k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 1608272k cached Only recognizes 2GB of 4GB?