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To: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: An idea for swap partition size vs. swap space size in use handling
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Mark Millard writes:

> It would be nice if I could have just one swap partition
> on a given boot media, one that is more than sufficient
> in size for all but the biggest RAM system --but to then
> be able to tell the system to just use up to the
> recommended swap space size and to ignore any extra swap
> space in the swap partition.

Last I looked at that code, that is precisely what happens
if you add a too big swap-device ?

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