silly question

[Peter Arremann]

On Wednesday 07 September 2005 23:59, Globe Trotter wrote:
> how does one figure out where the swap partition in? my /etc/fstab says:
>
> LABEL=SWAP-hda5         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>
> but i can't figure this out from here....i guess i am looking for something
> like /dev/hdaX or so....

The label is SWAP-hda5 - so the device behing it should be /dev/hda5
you can also look in /proc/swaps for it...
Or run fdisk -l and look at what device shows the type of "Linux swap"

Peter.