Hi! Thanks for wanting to improve things!
On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 07:34:43PM +0200, Anthony-John Vikare wrote: > Hello, > the wiki on swap ( https://wiki.debian.org/Swap ) states: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/PATH/FILENAME bs=1024 count=SIZE > ... > ...and SIZE is the size you wish your swap file to be in kilobytes (for > example 1048576 is 1 gigabyte). > > This (as stated) is incorrect and will result in dd creating a file way larger >than intended and potentially catastrophic for the system as an attempted count >=1GiB (very modest and as per the wiki example) times bs=1024 will result in dd >writing 1 Terabyte (1024 GiB) of zeros; a potentially catastrophic action on >most ssds/NVMes, especially considering an attempted 4-8GiB swap file *AND* >that dd has to be elevated with su/sudo/doas. However, I *don't* see an error here. The snippet you've shared looks correct - using a value of 1048576 (1M) for count here will generate a 1G file, just as it says. Maybe you've mis-read it? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." -- Daniel Pead
