Re: [newbie] partitions

[Paul]

> I used the df -h command to check partitions and it showed me /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb5
but
no swap. Can someone tell me why swap isn't listed.
> 

df is DiskFree. This will only show you the diskspace that is available to
the users on the system. Swap is a system resource, you can't use it to store
data on. So that is why df does not list it.

Paul