On 2007-01-11 18:12, James D. Parra wrote: > <snip> > > Okay, this is interesting. > > #dd if=/dev/zero of=/extra-swap bs=2GB count=1K > dd: memory exhausted > OK, my apologies for even suggesting such a blocksize, even if it is correct (but I think I had a count of 1, not 1K). Patrick and Randall have explained what happened. I assumed you'd use something like the "bs=2M count=1K" variant; sorry for not being clear about that.
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