"David A. Gatwood" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Nov 1998, charlie an wrote:
> 
> > Talking about swap space, I made a 160 Mb swap partition for my 24 Mb
> > RAM, (alghouth I rarely saw the swap was used up to 30 Mb).
> >
> > The question is I've heard that some Linux only uses up to certain size
> > of swap partition on a per disk base, what's the scenario for NetBSD?
> 
> I'm not sure about NetBSD, but I feel like I should make a small
> correction.  Linux only allows 128 megs per partition, not per disk (or at
> least that's how the ppc variants work, not sure about anybody else).
> 
Partition... Right. I've got an idea, for f in /dev/sd* ; do mv $f
$(echo $f | sed 's~/sd~/partition~') ; done it'll be perfect ;)
> Later,
> David
> 
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