>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel B. Thurman >Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 6:41 PM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: RE: How to check if swap is working? > > >>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steven Ringwald >>Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 6:35 PM >>To: For users of Fedora Core releases >>Subject: Re: How to check if swap is working? >> >> >>Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >> >>>Folks, >>> >>>I had to rebuild my filesystem and I have no idea if my swap >>>is working or not, so how can I check it? >>> >> >> >>% cat /proc/swaps >> >>This will tell you (in a parsable format) which swap devices >exist and >>how large they are, etc. >> >>Steve >> >> >>-- >>fedora-list mailing list >>fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >> > >Ok, thanks to Warren and Steve for the tips! > >Turns out that my swap failed to work. I thought that when I >did a mkswap, a label would be used and the fstab would somehow >get correctly set. I was wrong on both counts. grrr. > >I had to hardpath the swap (/dev/hda3) into the fstab and >then run swapon -a command. I rechecked swap and now I have >something other than "0" > >Again, thanks for the tips! > >Dan > Errrr.... I show that I do have the swap partition loaded with available swap space showing however I see that 0 swap is being used. Is this normal? How do I test to see if swap will work when needed? I see no activity at this time.... Dan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.1/204 - Release Date: 12/15/2005
