On Wednesday 07 September 2005 23:59, Globe Trotter wrote: > how does one figure out where the swap partition in? my /etc/fstab says: > > LABEL=SWAP-hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > but i can't figure this out from here....i guess i am looking for something > like /dev/hdaX or so.... The label is SWAP-hda5 - so the device behing it should be /dev/hda5 you can also look in /proc/swaps for it... Or run fdisk -l and look at what device shows the type of "Linux swap" Peter.
