What if the swap partition is a FAT32 ?
No, you can’t have a swap partition with a FAT32 file system. First of all, Linux can use a maximum of 128MB of swap space on a single swap partition. Thus, if your swap partition is larger than 128MB, you are wasting your disk space. And Windows will refuse to convert a partition of 128MB into a FAT32 file system. • The new style swap space Linux knows about two styles of swap areas, the old style and the new style. By default, you will be using the old style swap space with a signature “SWAP-SPACE”. If you want to use the new style swap space, then first of all change “SWAP-SPACE” in all the above scripts to “SWAPSPACE2”. Also add an option -v1 in the mkswap command in the swapinit.sh script, as follows /sbin/mkswap -v1 /dev/winswap YYYYY Also, run the following commands from the shell prompt : # swapoff /dev/winswap # mkswap -v1 /dev/winswap YYYYY # swapon /dev/winswap It seems that under new style swap space, your usable swap partition can be as large as 2GB on i386 platforms. This
