Swap partition

[Vram]

On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 15:04 +0100, Umut Tabak wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I am new to ubuntu and linux os. I have created a swap partition(5 GB)
> while installing ubuntu for file exchange with windows. The problem is
> that I can not find that partition in linux moreover I have a drive
> called sda2(the one linux is installed on is sda1 I guess ??) but when I
> try to open that(sda2) I receive a message that I do not have permission
> to view files. Could you please help me on this.
> 
> Many thanks in advance and regards.
> 
> Umut Tabak
> 

Try 

swapon -s


for a start...


HTH

Vram