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> OK I'm a bit confused here. It /sounds/ like you said you put 4.7 GIGabytes
> on a 512 MEGabyte hard drive. Hmm, no that can't be right. I'll bet you
> meant you have a computer with 512Mb RAM, and you created a 4.7Gb slice
> for SWAP. OK, that probably exceeds the traditional 2.5 x RAM I remember

i just NEED 4.5GB VM. what's wrong?

> it being. But still, as memory serves, the message(s) you're seeing
> won't have a definitive answer without first determining how large the
> "block size" is on your hard drive. While I'm inclined to think they're

sector size is 512 bytes. page size 4096 - it's x86.