Re: Swap Again

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

I played it safe and went with four 128M partitions for swap,

they worked fine...

Ahbaid.

brian davison wrote:

> My book says you can have as many swap partitions as you want, each a
> maximum of 128 mb.
> brian:)
> ********
>
> At 02:24 PM 10/9/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >I had some problems deleting a 2 Gig parttion from my second hard drive,
> >I wanted
> >to split it as 1.5 Gig for a filesystem and 0.5 Gig for swap...
> >
> >Since this was a fresh install, I decided to scrap it and redo the
> >installation,
> >
> >I repartitioned the two drives as follows at install
> >
> >3 Gig - hda
> >8 Gig - hdc
> >
> >
> >Upon booting the machine I get the following error messages regarding
> >swap
> >
> >BEGIN SNIPET
> >------------------------------------
> >Activating swap partitions
> >
> >swapon: warning: /dev/hdc8 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested
> >
> >swapon: warning: /dev/hda6 has insecure permissions 0660, 0600 suggested
> >
> >swapon: /dev/hda6: Invalid argument
> >
> >[FAILED]
> >-------------------
> >END SNIPET
> >
> >What can I do to remedy this problem?
> >
> >Can swap partitions be larger than 128M?
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Ahbaid.
> >
> >
> >
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