From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050921 Red Hat/1.0.7-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.7 Description of problem: The RHEL 4 (and 3) install guide incorrectly states that a swap partition can only be 2GB in size. This is incorrect as noted by Arjan in this note: https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-September/msg00153.html RHEL 4 (and 3) support very large swap partitions and this documentation should be updated as soon as possible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Read docs 2. Look at swap partition info Actual Results: "If you are unsure about what size swap partition to create, make it twice the amount of RAM on your machine (but no larger than 2 GB). It must be of type swap." -and- "Tip If your partitioning scheme requires a swap partition that is larger than 2 GB, you should create an additional swap partition. For example, if you need 4 GB of swap, you should create two 2 GB swap partitions. If you have 4 GB of RAM, you should create three 2 GB swap partitions. Red Hat Enterprise Linux supports up to 32 swap files." Expected Results: Swap partitions have no theoretical limit in size (please verify the exact details with a kernel engineer). Additional info:
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This is a clear documentation issue that should be fixed. It's like me finding a bug in the Knowledge Base at http://kbase.redhat.com. It should be fixed and shouldn't take months to resolve!
This has been fixed in RHEL 5 Installation Guide, and has also been fixed in the RHEL 4 documentation. Waiting on a rebuild of the RHEL 4 documentation before pushing to redhat.com.
Proposing for FasTrack
Adding 'cc ecs-dev-list for tracking
Posted to RH.com, awaiting resync.
This is fixed. http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/en-US/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/s1-diskpartitioning.html Awaiting traffic ticket #423806 to remove the old html page.