On Fri 25 Sep 2020 at 07:41:10 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:37:52 +0000 Pariksheet Nanda > <pariksheet.na...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't know how to empirically test that swap works > > Try free. E.g.: > > root@jhegaala:~# free > total used free shared buff/cache > available > Mem: 7860 5095 780 597 1985 > 1958 > Swap: 15623 2426 13197 > Total: 23484 7521 13977 > root@jhegaala:~# > > If swap is not enabled, the Swap line won't be there. > > Or try htop.
$ /sbin/swapon --noheadings --show=name,type,size /dev/dm-0 partition 499M Cheers, David.