Just guessing, but I would say it is mkswap itself that has a 32-bit limitation in it somewhere. (This _is_ beta code after all.) Maybe try downloading a more current version of the source and building it will help (if you're not a C programmer).
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Sergey Korzhevsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: swapfile over 2G on 64bit Hi. Is it possible to create swapfile over 2G on 64bit system?. I think yes, but i've got the following "answer": ls -la -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4294967296 Sep 17 12:51 swap3 mkswap /share/share/swap3 mkswap: error: swap area needs to be at least 40kB Usage: mkswap [-c] [-v0|-v1] [-pPAGESZ] /dev/name [blocks] It is on SLES7(64b, beta). 'Mkswap' from util-linux-2.11b-52 ps: uname -a Linux zlinux 2.4.21-4 #2 SMP Tue Sep 2 11:42:25 EEST 2003 s390x unknown ldd /sbin/mkswap libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000010000033000) /lib/ld64.so.1 => /lib/ld64.so.1 (0x0000010000000000) So, what's wrong? WBR, Sergey
