Thank you for the quick response. My problem is that I specified the swap partition to be on one of the hard drives. If the system was going to create a dynamic swap file, shouldn't there be an entry in the fstab, or somewhere? Just curious.. -----Original Message----- From: Shaw, Marco [mailto:Marco.Shaw@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 12:17 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: RE: Help Hmmmm... Could be a swap file... http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1- swap-adding.html Might use lsof and grep for those file names to see if anything is writing to them depending on the timestamps. Marco > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bullock, Ronald > Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 1:12 PM > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Help > > I've found several gigantic files in the users directory with the size > of 2147483648. The name of the files are .swap1.img, .swap2.img, etc.. > My questions are: > > What are they? > > How did they get there? > > Can they be removed? > > Thank you in advance for your help. P.S I hope this is the > correct url. > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
