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How do I find out if I have a swap partition on my hard drive?

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I used the 12.04 live cd to install Ubuntu over my Windows 7 partition and deleted everything so I just have Ubuntu on my laptop. But since during the installer I chose the simple "erase entire disk" option, did the installer create a swap partition or is that something I should've done with the "something else" option? Btw I have 6GB of RAM

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answered 2 Years ago cheeturage · Accepted Answer

Easy, graphical way to check with Disk Utility

Open Disk Utility from the Dash:

In the left column, look for the words "Hard Disk", and click on that:

In the right column, see if you can find "Swap" as shown. If so, you have swap enabled; you can click on that portion to see details. It will look something like this:

Alternately, open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T, and type swapon -s; if you see a line like the below, with statistics, swap is enabled:

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