Installation?

Knute Johnson ubuntu at knutejohnson.com
Wed Mar 9 19:59:13 UTC 2011


On 03/09/2011 11:52 AM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:43 PM, MR ZenWiz<mrzenwiz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Knute
>> Johnson<ubuntu at knutejohnson.com>  wrote:
>>> I just installed 10.10 desktop and I'm not sure if I got a swap
>>> partition. Should I have a swap partition?  How do I tell for
>>> sure whether I do?
>>>
>> Run 'df.'
>>
>> Whether or not you "should" have a swap partition depends on how
>> much memory you have and how much disk accessing your system does
>> on a regular basis.
>>
>> Technically, even if you "need" swap space, you can create a swap
>> file if there's no partition.
>
>
> " df. " is not right.
>
> "df" in my system doesn't show swap.
>
> Perhaps you should try "swapon -s"
>
> It will display a swap partition if it exists.
>
> L.
>
>

Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
/dev/sdb5                               partition	3068924	0	-1


It doesn't format well but seems to say there is a partition number 5 
that is swap?

Thanks,

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Knute Johnson
ubuntu at knutejohnson.com




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