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Re: Ubuntu not using the swap partition

Florian Diesch

2008-03-27

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Ioannis Vranos <ivranos@(protected):

> OS: Ubuntu 7.10 x86.
>
> During installation I had created a partition named /hdc1 for swap, but
> Ubuntu is not using it:
>
> john@(protected)
> Filesystem        Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdc3         292G  13G 265G  5% /
> varrun           506M 132K 506M  1% /var/run
> varlock          506M   0 506M  0% /var/lock
> udev            506M 104K 506M  1% /dev
> devshm           506M   0 506M  0% /dev/shm
> lrm             506M  34M 472M  7%
> /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile
> /dev/hdc2         942M  35M 860M  4% /boot
> john@(protected):~$

df doesn't show swpa partitions as they don't have a file system.

Use "free" to see general memory usage and "swapon -s" to list swap
partitions.




 Florian
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