mkswap on 1k file

Stefan Seyfried stefan.seyfried at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 1 21:06:47 UTC 2010


On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:24:54 -0600
Matthew Stoltenberg <d3matt at gmail.com> wrote:

> At least the kernel doesn't allow you to swapon it...
> 
> "Swap area shorter than signature indicates"

Probably swap smaller than PAGE_SIZE is not possible anyway.
And I'm not sure busybox should spend code size for "the user is
clearly not qualified enough to use this tool" issues, especially as no
harm is done as you wrote above ;)

> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Mikhail Gusarov
> <dottedmag at dottedmag.net> wrote:
> > Hi.

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read
   text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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