On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:09:19 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > A very old (11 years?) but much loved desktop > has developed a nasty habit of stopping me editing > because the file, it says, is Read-only. > > I suspect this is because the swap partition > (on an even older SCSI disk) is not functioning. > > How does one find which swap device or devices is in use? > ("top" says there is 2GB swap space, but 0k in use.) cat /proc/swaps or swapon -s --Frank -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines