Strange,

have you tried mkswap -v2?  (man is your friend)

In any case, IMO 1.6GB of swap is beyond silly, your system will be useless
by the time it fills up half of that. :)

-Phil



> dragon# fdisk -l /dev/hda | grep hda2
> /dev/hda2            10       219   1686825   82  Linux swap
> dragon# mkswap -v1 -v -c /dev/hda2
> mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to 130752kB
> Setting up swapspace version 0, size = 133885952 bytes
>
> 1.6GB partition, mkswap truncating to 128Mb.
>
> This is with kernel 2.4.18, debian/sid, util-linux (where I think
> mkswap comes from) version 2.11n-4.