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Old 11-06-2009, 10:31 AM   #1
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Question How to display the size of swap?


A quick question, how to display the size of swap under OpenSuse Linux?

I use fdisk -l but it returns the size unreadable. How can I display the size in megabytes?

Thanks!
 
Old 11-06-2009, 10:38 AM   #2
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Hello ggyyree,

I'm not sure what exactly you mean with "size of swap". The swapspace (size of the swappartition):
Code:
fdisk -l /dev/hda
if it resides on your hda-drive.
The amount of swapspace which is used in the moment:
Code:
free -m
where the "-m" means MB. This will list the total and the used amount of both, RAM and swapspace.

Markus
 
Old 11-06-2009, 10:39 AM   #3
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try this way:
in terminal type:
sudo su[enter]
UR password when prompted
gparted[enter]

there U can choose UR main partition , in the list above U can see the swap partition size.
I hope it helps
 
Old 11-06-2009, 10:50 AM   #4
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you can use
Code:
swapon -s
or
Code:
cat /proc/swaps
or
Code:
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