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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Query] Confusion of the Swap when using 'free -m' command Post 302582711 by dude2cool on Saturday 17th of December 2011 08:53:42 AM
Old 12-17-2011
Maybe this will help:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

To look for your swap partition

Code:
grep swap /etc/fstab

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NAME
purple-url-handler - Python script to handle URL with purple SYNOPSIS
purple-url-handler [-URL] DESCRIPTION
Python script to handle URL with purple. OPTIONS
Usage: purple-url-handler URL Example: purple-url-handler "xmpp:romeo@montague.net?message" ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-im-client | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
purple-remote(1), purple-send(1), purple-send-async(1), attributes(5) purple-url-handler Manual, http://pidgin.im/ NOTES
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