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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12-7
Severity: minor
File: /sbin/mkswap
Hi,
mkswap's man page says:
| The maximum useful size of a swap area now depends on the architecture.
| It is roughly 2GiB on i386, PPC, m68k, ARM, 1GiB on sparc, 512MiB on
| mips, 128GiB on alpha and 3TiB on sparc64.
But, according to
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.1/0583.html, this
limit has been increased with 2.4.x, x > 10. Looks like swap spaces
up to 64 GB are allowed now, and work with current unstable mkswap.
So the manpage should be updated.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-zgserver
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.9-2 The S-Lang programming library wit
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
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