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Bryan Palmer wrote:
> 
> Just a quickie for a linux guru. Is there a max swap partition size?
> Also, is there a max hard disk size?

Yes to both.  AFAIK, in linux-1.2.13 a swap partition or file 
could hold 4086*8-1 memory pages of 4 kb.  I seem to remember 
that number of swap files/partitions was then limited to 64.  
Of course it's different on 64 bit boxes -- I don't own an Alpha :-( 
but page size on that is 8 kb.
Use The Source to find current values: asm/page.h, mm/swap.c.

I don't remember what's max filesystem size for ext2, max file
size is 2 Gb I think (but they're working on it.)  Also, there 
should be a limit on max number of mounted filesystems...  
wild guess: say, 1.83E8 filesystems and half that many files
of 2 Gb in a filesystem on x86, if we use unsigned int and all
files are in the root directory...

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Dimitri
emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au
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