On Thursday 01 September 2016 06:50:13 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 8/31/2016 11:48 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-31 11:25 (UTC-0500): > >> Commenting out the line in /etc/fstab DID allow it to boot > >> without warning messages. > >> > >> However,taking into account Darac's comments, does this now mean > >> that the machines are now operating without a swap partition? > > > > If fstab has no uncommented lines for swap, then there will no > > swap enabled. Among ways to see if swap is currently active are > > top and free. > > Thank you. > For we of tri-focal generation I recommend using free. > The relavant info is more easily found ;/
As a glasses wearer for 75 years, and one of the tri-focal crowd for about 65 years, I cheat, making use of the multiple workspaces windowing system, I have a multitab terminal-4.8 session open on workspace 1. The first tab has a 'sudo htop' run on it, first thing after a reboot, so I can always kill a runaway session of firefox or iceweasel that refuses to die on request. Accessable in 2 clicks no matter how stuffed the system is. Next tab has a "sudo tail -fn400 /var/log/messages" on it so I can look at the whole boot log if I want, and the next 3 or 4 tabs are tailing other stuff that automate much of what I do here. workspace 2 has a duplicate of a multitab terminal-4.8 on it, each tab logged into a different machine on my local network with an "ssh -Y machine-alias". I could go on for 8 more "workspaces", but you get the idea.;-) And after 19+ days of uptime, I have 39 megs of stuff in swap. And I'm still on wheezy LTS. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
