[ale] who is eating my drive

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

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.

Thats my understanding may be (and obivously ) it is wrong.

Not sure how to undo the swap space.

I have 8GB of Memory allocated to this VMWare session.

I may not need almost any swap at all.

Can I reclaim all the swap as a regular drive ?  If so how do I do that ?

-Narahari

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>   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.
>
>
>
> Type “swapon –s” and you should see this device.
>
>
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Narahari
> 'n' Savitha
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 31, 2011 1:29 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] who is eating my drive
>
>
>
> Thanks for all your time.
>
>
> Here is the output of the fdisk -l command
>
> devusr at devusr-virtual-machine:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 22.5 GB, 22548578304 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2741 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00075d29
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1698    13630464   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            1698        2742     8386561    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            1698        2742     8386560   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
>
>
>
> So what should I be looking here for ?
>
> -Narahari
>
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