swap on a lv for hibernation

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Mon Aug 28 01:14:08 UTC 2006


Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> writes:

> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 17:06 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> writes:
>> 
>> > In /etc/hibernate/suspend2.conf, I set:
>> >
>> > SuspendDevice swap:/dev/sys/Swap
>> 
>> Hmm, are you sure your LVM swap partition is actually getting used?
>> When I do 
>> 
>>      sudo swapon -s 
>> 
>> I get no response.  Do you know how to make sure that partition
>> actually gets used for swap space?
> --
> I found you can see swap usage under system-->administration-->system
> monitor, under the resources tab. You may have to open up a few large
> apps before it gets used.

That really doesn't address the question.  swap space is coming from
*somewhere*, of course.  But where?  Does the LVM partition get used,
or something else?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com





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