John R Pierce wrote: > what does > > # swapon -s > > show? According to 'man swapon', swapon -s means: Display swap usage summary by device. Equivalent to "cat /proc/swaps". Not available before Linux 2.1.25. > for example, one of my systems shows... > > # swapon -s > Filename Type Size Used Priority > /dev/md0 partition 2096376 294864 -1 which show your swap partition, whereas on my problem system, 'swapon -s' produces no output at all.