[TriLUG] rhel 3.0 es swap partition over 2.0 gb

[Brian McCullough]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:03:41PM -0500, Kevin Flanagan wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 21:35, Marty Ferguson wrote:
> 
> I think that there's something else here, perhaps it is the 32 bit arch,
> I seem to recall that as a limit with other Operating Systems, older
> than Windows too....  ;')  I want to say that 2GB limit was in VMS going
> a long ways back, but am not sure.  Perhaps google, or the wayback
> machine will help.  Off I go, digging through the archives.


I had been holding back, but I do know that many UN*X ( and UN*X-like )
OSs had limits like this on partition, filesystem, and even disk sizes.
Solaris ( SunOS ) 4 and early 5 ( if I remember correctly ) had a
maximum partition and filesystem size of 2 GB.  ( as did Linux! )

B-)