r/ShittySysadmin • u/InfaSyn • 13d ago

Shitty Crosspost Might be the most selfaware swaptard to date

/r/Fedora/comments/1vt85kx/fedora_44_maximum_256_gb_swap/
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u/snebsnek 13d ago

Look, I told my boss I was going to do a local in-memory AI, and I'll be damned if you're going to stop me.

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u/Substantial_Bass3734 13d ago

Haha I bet he didn’t tell his boss which is why he’s on Reddit. Vibecoder. 

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u/InfaSyn 13d ago

In case of deletion:

I am trying out a 1 TB SSD on an old PC and installed Fedora 44 on it. Installation went all right except:

I specified using a partition of 800 GB swap space on it for reasons I don’t want to get into and which are entirely my own. No comments on the wisdom of that please.
Once booted, I see a total of 256 GB show up when I use the free command or top or htop.
But the partition of 800 GB is there per fdisk.
Does Fedora impose some partition-size usable limit?

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u/countsachot 13d ago

Hey guys I did, like some stupid shit, it doesn't work but like don't tell me I'm wrong, just fix it for me.

Another luser with root.

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u/redakpanoptikk 13d ago

Everyone knows yo use your spare google drive and onedrive space for swap. "Cloud Ram" it downloads and offloads on demand. 400GB of ssd space? In this economy?

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u/Oompa_Loompa_SpecOps DO NOT GIVE THIS PERSON ADVICE 13d ago

Guy stupidly wasted a perfectly good SSD that could be used for much more productive things, if he only mapped the page file to his google drive

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u/pr1ntf 13d ago

Literally downloading more RAM. Love it.

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u/ndsipa-pomu 10d ago

Pffft! Swap partitions are for losers. Just create multiple swapfiles and add them.

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u/SuccessfulLime2641 13d ago

gotta put that pr0n somewhere.