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The Thursday 2007-09-20 at 07:34 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > [root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # swapon -s
> > Filename Type Size Used Priority
> > /dev/hda5 partition 2104472 0 -1
> >
> > What is strange is that man swapon says -s is equivalent to cat
> > /proc/swaps. I do not have a /proc/swaps to be found. Hmm.. Thoughts?
You should. I do:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used
Priority
/dev/hdd7 partition 6297440 589736 42
> Let me correct that. I do have a swaps it has the permissions:
>
> [root Rankin-P35a:/home/david] # ll /proc/swaps
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-09-20 07:33 /proc/swaps
>
> The permission would seem to prevent writing to swap. What should the
> permissions for swap be?
Permissions are correct.
That's just an informational, virtual file, not the real swap. And any
way, a user or its program do not write to the swap: it is the kernel who
does.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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