Ideal Swap Partition Size

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Jan 19 20:37:25 UTC 2009


Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 10:28 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> Note that a Linux swap _partition_ is limited to 2GB.
> 
> If this is true, then it'd be a good idea if the disk partitioner that
> Anaconda uses didn't let you make bigger partitions than that, because
> it does.
> 
> And does that also apply to swap partitions inside LVM?
> 
For kernels after 2.3.3 there is no such limitation.

Mikkel
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