Help (unknown files)

Shaw, Marco Marco.Shaw at aliant.ca
Wed Sep 28 11:55:03 UTC 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Bullock, Ronald
> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 2:55 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: Help
> 
> Marco,
> The lsof /users2/.swap1.img command returns nothing, and the file
> /users2/.swap1.img command returns the following:
> Linux/i386 swap file (new style), but no timestamp. The ls 
> -al shows the
> creation date of March 27th and the size hasn't changed.  

Well, swap files don't contain any useful info, so delete them.

The system was likely rebooted since March 27th?  If so, since
you didn't find anything in /etc/fstab, it's doubtful that the swap
file would have been turned on after a reboot.

Marco
RHCE




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