This command will print information about your swap partition easily using the Linux command line. root@Yog-Sothoth:~# swapon -s -v Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 7811068 0 -2 /dev/dm-1 partition 62500860 0 -3root@Yog-Sothoth:~# swapon -s -v Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 7811068 0 -2 /dev/dm-1 partition 62500860 0 -3 The –show parameter … Read more
I recently wanted to add a swap partition to my Fedora Core 19 system as apparently I was running all this time without one. This is the command that I used to find a partition to use. root@neo homer# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of … Read more
I have 6 Gigabytes of RAM in my computer and I found out that my swap partition was only 2 Gigabytes. So I needed to create a larger partition. I used the Gparted application to delete a useless Gentoo partition and then I created a 12 Gigabyte partition to use as swap space. This will … Read more