I got the following error: mkswap: warning: truncuating swap area to 2097144kB mkswap: will not try to make swapdevice on '%s'
and I could not set the whole disk as a swap device. This is upon deleting all partitions in the device, and typing 'mkswap /dev/hdb' Renai On Monday 30 April 2001 14:29, you wrote: > > it's a 4 gig drive > > > > do you really think having a 4 gig swap disk is worth it on a system with > > 32 meg ram? > > No, but I don't think it would do any harm, *if* you're not going to use > the rest of the disk anyway. > > > and do I have to format the whole drive as swap? > > Yes: mkswap -v1 /dev/hdx > > > Renai > > It's not that much of a performance gain. Calculating partition boundaries > is probably nothing more than 10 lines of code per access, but if you're > going to make one big swap partition that fills up the whole disk, you > might as well just make it a swap drive. If not, don't bother. ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------