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.