mkswap on 1k file

Mikhail Gusarov dottedmag at dottedmag.net
Mon Feb 1 16:47:38 UTC 2010


Hi.

busybox 1.15.3

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=foo count=1 bs=1024
$ mkswap foo
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 18446744073709548544 bytes
UUID=77c3c1dc-97e5-4e5d-8811-01c37c822bd2
$

looks like a very cheap way to make a HUGE swap :)

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