Re: swap-partition

["Karl E. Jorgensen" <karl.jorgensen@nice.com>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:07:28PM +0000, Klaus Jantzen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system.
> Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions.
> 
> As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap 
> partitions.
> How can I find out which swap partition is used by Debian and by the 
> other Linux, respectively?
> 
> With 'df' I only see the file systems mounted e.g. / (root) and /home of 
> Debian but not the swap partition.

Actually, even with two different linux installations under dual-boot,
you only need one swap partition: They can usually share :-) (unless
you do suspend-to-disk).

>From within a running Linux system, you can see the active swap
partitions/files using:

# swapon -s

or

$ cat /proc/swaps

Hope this helps

-- 
Karl E. Jorgensen