Swap question

[Simon Barner]

Brent Wiese wrote:
> I recently added a new disk to a 4.9 machine. I was having problems running
> out of swap space, so I used a couple gigs of this drive as another swap
> partition.
> 
> It is listed as a swap partition in /etc/fstab.
> 
> I couldn't actually find something that would confirm this, so hoping
> someone here can.
> 
> I saw in "man swapon" something about only the first swap partition is used
> when the machine boots. The implication was any other swaps needed to be
> "turned on" afterwards.

That man page misses a SEE ALSO reference to swapinfo. It will show
usage statistics for all of your swap partitions.

Simon
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