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.)
$ apropos swap | grep device
swapoff [swapon] (2) - start/stop swapping to file/device
swapoff [swapon] (8) - enable/disable devices and files for paging
and swapping
swapon (2) - start/stop swapping to file/device
swapon (8) - enable/disable devices and files for paging
and swapping
$ man swapon
> And is there any other likely cause of the Read-only disease?
Likely? Buggy editors?
Mike
--
p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN.
This message made from 100% recycled bits.
You have found the bank of Larn.
I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!
--
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
