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benjojo posted 31 Jan 2026 20:43 +0000

I do appreciate the future proofing of gnu coreutils's "free" command having a --pebi (show output (of RAM) in pebibytes), at the current rate I think that might be a little preemptive

# free --pebi
               total        used        free 
Mem:               0           0           0 
Swap:              0           0           0

Suppose you could probably(?) configure a PiB of Swap though...

benjojo replied 31 Jan 2026 20:41 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/ytcl7wW52HXB22Y7d2

Who would have thought the maximum swap size on a single device would be so limiting

A screenshot of a virtual machine with a 2 petabyte drive in it, swap being formatted, with a warning that it it can only go up to 16 terabyte, swapon and then free -h confirms only 16 TB of swap

dickenhobelix@chaos... replied 31 Jan 2026 20:44 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/6M6L2Ks82ks73kcR99

@benjojo I wonder if one could use S3 for swap space... <shudder>

benjojo replied 31 Jan 2026 20:53 +0000
in reply to: https://chaos.social/users/dickenhobelix/statuses/115991658706465513

@dickenhobelix may as well use AWS EFS, at least then you don't need FUSE :)