Hmm. Makes sense. But I dont think you can make swap on the primary parition. To make swap space you have to create extended and on that extended you setup up swap.<br><br>Thats my understanding may be (and obivously ) it is wrong.<br>
<br>Not sure how to undo the swap space.<br><br>I have 8GB of Memory allocated to this VMWare session.<br><br>I may not need almost any swap at all.<br><br>Can I reclaim all the swap as a regular drive ? If so how do I do that ?<br>
<br>-Narahari<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">It is showing you made /dev/sda2 your
Extended partition of 8 GB then used up all 8 GB in the sub-partition of the
Extended partition as a SWAP device (/dev/sda5). (By the way you don’t
typically use Extended partition until you run out of primaries – you could
have made /dev/sda2 itself the swap device.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Type “swapon –s” and you
should see this device.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>
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'n' Savitha<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 31, 2011 1:29
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Linux Enthusiasts</span></font></p><div class="im"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] who is eating
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks for all your time.</span></font></p><div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div class="h5"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><br>
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Here is the output of the fdisk -l command<br>
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devusr@devusr-virtual-machine:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda<br>
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Disk /dev/sda: 22.5 GB, 22548578304 bytes<br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2741 cylinders<br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0x00075d29<br>
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Device Boot
Start
End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sda1
*
1 1698
13630464 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda2
1698 2742
8386561 5 Extended<br>
/dev/sda5
1698 2742
8386560 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br>
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So what should I be looking here for ?<br>
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