Bug 58803
| Summary: | Can't choose format as swap on swap partition > 2048MB during install | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Jeff Wiedemeier <jeff.wiedemeier> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Beth Uptagrafft <bhu> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Beth Uptagrafft <bhu> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | alpha | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-02-11 22:40:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Not beeing able to handle individual swap space overs 2GB reflects a kernel limitation. You can create several swap partitions of 2GB each. 2GB is *not* a kernel limitation on Alpha... From the Partition howto (http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/partition-4.html#SWAPSIZE): Currently, the maximum size of a swap partition is architecture-dependent. For i386 and PowerPC, it is approximately 2Gb. It is 128Gb on alpha, 1Gb on sparc, and 3Tb on sparc64. This should be fixed in the upcoming release. I'm closing this case because it was fixed in the Feb 22 delivery. Please let us know if you still see any problems with this issue. |
Description of Problem: The installation will not allow formatting of a swap partition > 2048MB Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: Very Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use fdisk to create a large swap partition (4GB is plenty) 2. Attempt to explicitly have the installer format the swap partition (i.e. Edit partition, make sure format as swap is selected, choose ok) Actual Results: Dialog displaying: Error With Request The size of the swap partition (size = 4000.0 MB) exceeds the maximum size of 2048 MB. and the edit of the partition must be cancelled Expected Results: Allow it. Additional Information: