On 03/18/2011 04:42 PM, users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Subject: > Re: My "swap" space seems to have vanished.... > From: > "Michael D. Setzer II" <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: > Sat, 19 Mar 2011 01:42:33 +1000 > > To: > Martin Airs <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>, users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > On 18 Mar 2011 at 15:34, Martin Airs wrote: > > From: Martin Airs<martin@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: My "swap" space seems to have vanished.... > Date sent: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:34:10 +0000 > Send reply to: Martin Airs<martin@xxxxxxxxxx>, > Community support for Fedora users<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> > <mailto:users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > >> > On Friday 18 Mar 2011 14:46:23 DB wrote: >>> > > df >>> > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on >>> > > /dev/sda2 28833848 5518600 23022388 20% / >>> > > tmpfs 1899484 1068 1898416 1% /dev/shm >>> > > /dev/sda1 474440 50462 399481 12% /boot >>> > > /dev/sda3 288370940 26611056 247111416 10% /home >>> > > >> > > Your swap is part of the LVM partitions. I don't have LVM partitions - at least, I never set any up!!! > cat /proc/partitions > > On mine it shows > major minor #blocks name > > 8 0 488386584 sda > 8 1 204800 sda1 > 8 2 32696288 sda2 > 8 3 455482912 sda3 > 253 0 27123712 dm-0 > 253 1 5570560 dm-1 > > In this case dm-1 is the swap partition. > > swapon -s shows the status of the swap. > > On my system. > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/dm-1 partition 5570556 2156 -1 Yes, mine is similar swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sdb5 partition 2047996 0 -1 > > > > >> > df -h on my system doesn't show swap either >> > >> > [martin@desktop ~]$ df -h >> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root >> > 22G 20G 904M 96% / >> > tmpfs 1005M 3.3M 1001M 1% /dev/shm >> > /dev/sda1 194M 62M 123M 34% /boot >> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home >> > 50G 38G 9.5G 80% /home >> > /dev/sdb1 112G 95G 18G 85% /media/disk >> > >>> > > >>> > > Dave >>> > > >>> > > uname -ar >>> > > Linux Fedora-Blue 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 07:06:44 UTC >>> > > 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> > >> > however if i type free -m >> > [martin@desktop ~]$ free -m >> > total used free shared buffers cached >> > Mem: 2008 1759 248 0 100 585 >> > -/+ buffers/cache: 1073 934 >> > Swap: 3967 16 3951 >> > >> > my swap is indeed there, does free show swap on your system?? Indeed: free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3709 2013 1696 0 102 1139 -/+ buffers/cache: 770 2939 Swap: 1999 0 1999 >> > >> > Martin >> > Thanks all for the many suggestions! Strangely, just after I sent my original mail, System Monitor suddenly decided, all on its own, to add the 2GB swap partition....??????? I think I must have a Gremlin somewhere! Anyway, things appear to be (back to) "normal"! Thanks again Dave -- 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
