Best command to display current swap partition size

[Daniel Simard]

Good morning All,
What is the command that we can use to display the current swap partition size?

[John Poff · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can use the 'free' command:

$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1026424 1009404 17020 0 82808 637328
-/+ buffers/cache: 289268 737156
Swap: 2064376 8508 2055868


You can also look at 'swaps' in the /proc filesystem, which should show all your swap devices if you have more than one:

$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 partition 2064376 8508 -1

JP

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