>> util-linux 2.9 was released by Andries Brouwer
Andries responded right away, and after some back-and-forth, I am
attaching the relevant clips.
It seems like no one has found a current kernel that supports what is
indicated in the man pages of mkdisk regarding cpuinfo, but formally it's
OK as stated there (see also his note at the bottom regarding Mandrake's
customization).
In my opinion, Neil wins the contest:
dd if=/dev/hdXX bs=4096 count=1 | strings
(increase count as needed)
Although this discussion seems only relevant for installations prior to
2.2 kernels, you can trick yourself if you have used older 3rd-party
tools like PartitionMagic (e.g. V4.0) on that drive along time ago: In
that case even a recent distro installs itself w/o giving you a hint that
old style swap is used........................ Horst
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > cat /proc/meminfo
>
> Hmm.
>
> On the first three Linux machines I try, neither /proc/cpuinfo nor
> /proc/meminfo give the machine page size.
>
> What kernel version and what field in /proc/meminfo
> works for you?
>
> Andries
>
< my response: >
I am looking first at 2.4.18-6 (mandrake).
This shows for /proc/meminfo Swap(total) and nrSwapPages --so I conclude
559276032/136542 = 4096 byte/page. (entire output ###below###)
<snip'ed report for RH 8.0 >
- Horst
############# /proc/meminfo 2.4.18-6 (mdk 8.2) #################
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 261910528 53567488 208343040 0 4870144 23990272
Swap: 559276032 0 559276032
MemTotal: 255772 kB
MemFree: 203460 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 4756 kB
Cached: 23428 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 14616 kB
Inactive: 28708 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 255772 kB
LowFree: 203460 kB
SwapTotal: 546168 kB
SwapFree: 546168 kB
NrSwapPages: 136542 pages
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Linux version 2.4.18-6mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk)) #1 Fri Mar 15 02:59:08
CET 2002
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Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 13:52:52 +0100 (MET)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [util-linux] man pages, MKSWAP(8),
about swap type; "Linux 2.2.4 25 March 1999"
> NrSwapPages: 136542 pages
Must be a Mandrake extension. The stock 2.4 kernel has
"MemTotal: %8lu kB\n"
"MemFree: %8lu kB\n"
"MemShared: %8lu kB\n"
"Buffers: %8lu kB\n"
"Cached: %8lu kB\n"
"SwapCached: %8lu kB\n"
"Active: %8u kB\n"
"Inactive: %8u kB\n"
"HighTotal: %8lu kB\n"
"HighFree: %8lu kB\n"
"LowTotal: %8lu kB\n"
"LowFree: %8lu kB\n"
"SwapTotal: %8lu kB\n"
"SwapFree: %8lu kB\n",
in proc_misc.c.
So, it is no good to refer to /proc/meminfo.
Andries
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