Swap problem?

[fred6633]

Hello,

I use 8.10. I don't know if my swap partition is ok.
I created Linux partitions in Bootit New Generation (BING). First I installed Mandriva but I got problems.

Then I installed Kubuntu 8.10 on the same partitions. I choosed manual partionering and there was no problems during the install.

Today when I resized my /home partition in BING, it reported that the swap partition not was formatted.

when I enter df -h there is no swap partiton listed.

When I enter top it reports a swap partition: Swap: 4088500k total,
0k used, 4088500k free

fdisk -l reports a swap partition dev/sda7

In /etc/ fstab I have a swap partition, but in /etc/mstab I have not.

So I'm confused.

How do I find out if swap is formatted? and if not, how do I format?

I read I could use the live CD but I saw no such option when I booted with it.

Is it a problem at all? Everything works fine so far.

My Linux knowledge is limited.

Thanks

Fred

[taurus]

Post the outputs of these commands from a terminal.


sudo fdisk -l
sudo blkid
cat /etc/fstab
free -m

[logos34]

when I enter df -h there is no swap partiton listed.


When I enter top it reports a swap partition: Swap: 4088500k total,
0k used, 4088500k free

fdisk -l reports a swap partition dev/sda7

In /etc/ fstab I have a swap partition, but in /etc/mstab I have not.


df nor mtab will show it.

Looks like it's working and everything is fine, but the system doesn't need to cache anything there because you have plenty of ram.

[fred6633]

Thanks for your replies. Here comes the outposts:

fredrik@Hem:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for fredrik:
Disk /dev/sda: 160,0 GB, 160041885696 byte
255 headers, 63 sektorer/spår, 19457 cylindrar
Enheter = cylindrar av 16065 · 512 = 8225280 byte
Diskidentifierare: 0xc945c945

Device Start Begin End Block Id System
/dev/sda1 1 7648 61432528+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 7649 8285 5116702+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 8286 11808 28298497+ f W95 Extended (LBA)
/dev/sda5 8286 9559 10233373+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9560 11299 13976518+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 11300 11808 4088511 82 Linux swap / Solaris

fredrik@Hem:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="5CEC3D1BEC3CF0BE" LABEL="Toftered" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="b80446f6-393c-4123-b9a1-43a555105931" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="08bd900e-0a26-4b0e-a18b-ea7128b85917" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: UUID="23cf5d59-2e3d-45a5-ac5e-1c6184244224" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: TYPE="swap" UUID="350d3080-c7c8-4670-adaa-6810bde555f7"

fredrik@Hem:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=b80446f6-393c-4123-b9a1-43a555105931 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=23cf5d59-2e3d-45a5-ac5e-1c6184244224 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda5
UUID=08bd900e-0a26-4b0e-a18b-ea7128b85917 /usr ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda7
UUID=350d3080-c7c8-4670-adaa-6810bde555f7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

fredrik@Hem:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1987 640 1346 0 20 337
-/+ buffers/cache: 282 1705
Swap: 3992 0 3992

Sorry that all words above are not english. I translated some of them.

Fred