afasik, Linux simply takes all the area that you define as swap thereby putting less
load on the physical RAM. and I guess it is also
true that we need at least twice the amount of RAM for swap space. I've 128 MB RAM and
hence I'd give 250 MB swap.
I hope my understanding is corrrect, If there are some differences pl. update me on
the same.
"Nagarjuna G." wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Seshan wrote:
>
> ->: I had installed Mandrake Linux 6.1 on a 4.3 GB hdd. I had about ~3.8 GB
> ->: for Linux Native and about ~255 MB for the Swap partition. Now that I
> ->: have to release the hdd, I run fdisk under dos 6.22. Fdisk dose not
> ->: recognise the swap partition but it shows a non-dos partition of 255 MB
> ->: but does not allow me to delete it.
> ->:
> ->: I also tried Fdisk /mbr but in vain.
> ->:
>
> Any linux related partitions cannot be handled by fdisk of dos. Use fdisk
> from linux to get what you want.
>
> Also are you sure linux supports swap partitions greater than 128MB?
> You can have more than one swap partition but not larger than 128MB.
> Am I right?
>
> Nagarjuna
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