Re: can swap space be resized ?

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 08/26/03 

Date: 26 Aug 2003 13:34:59 GMT

David Magda <dmagda+trace030823@ee.ryerson.ca> writes:

>True. My line of thinking was that with Solaris, by using the df(1)
>command you can get an approximate size of the swap partition since
>/tmp and /var/run 'reside on' it, and you can get their usage
>statistics.

It's not really the same thing; the "avail" column in df /tmp will
show only the *available* amount of swap; and "used" will show the space
used in /tmp, not the used swap.

So it's really only a measure of available swap, if that.

Casper 

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