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Posted: Dec. 08 2003,19:55 QUOTE

Hi, I paritition my HD with 1000 meg in hda1 and 200 meg in hda5.  I installed DSL in hda1 already but my question is, How do I know if the DSL is using hda5 as a swap paritition??  And how do I check how many megs do I have left in each drive?  I don't even have the option to mount hda5 in the file manager.  Thanks.
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Posted: Dec. 08 2003,20:36 QUOTE

I am not sure why you can't  mount hda5, but if you right click on the desktop and choose enhance a graphical system monitor will appear. Mine seems to accurately show my swap space. For partititions you can mount there is a button on Emelfm that shows available disk space.
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Posted: Dec. 08 2003,21:55 QUOTE

You can use a shell window and type
free

It will show if you have a swap.

If you only partitioned for a swap, I think you said /dev/hda5, then
you need to prepare it for swap. As root type
mkswap /dev/hda5

You can reboot and the system will use your new swap partition.
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Posted: Dec. 08 2003,22:46 QUOTE

swapon -s    will list all active swap partitions or files
df -h   will quickly tell you about freespace on your drives
Did you specify partition type 82 for swap?
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Posted: Dec. 09 2003,05:05 QUOTE

I used swapon -s   but there is nothing, tried to use the mkswap command 'mkswap /dev/hda5' as root but it don't seem like they can find that partition.  I partition it before installing DSL on harddrive with cfdisk.  I remember it's hda1 and hda5, the program picked the hda5 for me... and I don't know if i specify partition type 82 for swap... how do I do that??  BTW thanks for everyone's help so far.
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