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<DIV>I think this might be a mkswap issue.</DIV>
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<DIV>I believe some versions of mkswap can't handle a file larger than
2Gb.</DIV>
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<DIV>I guess it's also worth mentioning at this point that swap partitions are
faster than swap files....</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>-----Original Message----- <BR><B>From:</B> Rob Dunne
[mailto:Rob.Dunne@CSIRO.AU] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Fri 26/03/2004 3:51 PM
<BR><B>To:</B> plug@plug.linux.org.au <BR><B>Cc:</B> <BR><B>Subject:</B>
[plug] swap file on itanium<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
<P><TT><FONT size=2>Hi list,<BR> I am
trying to set up a swapfile on an itanium1.<BR>This is how I did it on an
intel machine once<BR><BR>#swap files<BR>dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024
count=500536<BR>/sbin/mkswap swapfile<BR>sudo /sbin/swapon
swapfile<BR><BR><BR>what I am doing now is<BR><BR>dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile
bs=1024 count=12288000<BR>ls -l swapfile<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1
robd users 12582912000 Mar 26 18:33
swapfile<BR>/sbin/mkswap swapfile<BR>mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at
least 160kB<BR>Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name
[blocks]<BR><BR>none of the -c or -v options make a difference
and<BR>the swap area is at least 160kB (the error message is not much
use)<BR>I dont know about pagesize.<BR><BR>Any
ideas?<BR><BR>
bye<BR>
rob<BR><BR>--<BR>Rob
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