Matthias Feichtinger wrote:
> Hallo everybody!
>
> Does one know, what's the difference between mkswap v0 and makswap v1
> (Book 6.1.1 just says in chapter 2.3 mkswap -v /dev/[xxx], man mkswap is
> different and swapon want's mkswap -v1 to be done)
-v0 Create an old style swap area.
-v1 Create a new style swap area.
If no -v option is given, mkswap will default to new style, but
use old
style if the current kernel is older than 2.1.117 (and
also if
PAGE_SIZE is less than 2048). The new style header does not
touch the
first block, so may be preferable, in case you have a boot
loader or
disk label there. If you need to use both 2.0 and 2.2 kernels,
use the
-v0 option when creating the swapspace.
This is what man page says.
Regards
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Stefano Lampis
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