some questions about disk partitioning and filesystems and booting

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On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 07:06:54PM +0300, yp at mm.st wrote:
>Now this is something I wanted to ask as well, as I didn't find 
>anything really describing what needs to be done for large (not really 
>so this days, 32 and higher) RAM systems -- I have a system with 64GB 
>RAM and adding a 64GB swap partition makes system unhappy (I don't 
>remember the exact message).  With minidumps and all, what size it 
>should be so that dump is guaranteed to be saved?

A while ago I tried this (one big swap partition) and experienced the same.
This is why I went with several swap partitions. I think the maximum swap as a
partition is 32GB and I'm guessing the reason it's like that is down to
some variable buried in the code.
-- 
J.
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