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Old 06-10-2009
Solaris Disk based portion of swap.

Using 'swap -l' I can get the disk based portion of swap.

What if the swap (/usr/bin/swap) command isn't available. What are my options then? Could I get this number with kstat?

From /etc/vfstab, I can see the partitions that are reserved for swap.
/dev/dsk/c0d0s1

using df however not only gives me the size of the above but also of the physical memory portion of memory that is also considered swap. I need the disk based portion only.

I tried 'ls -al /dev/dsk/c0d0s1' but that's obviously not correct and only works for file based swap files. So

ls -al /devices/pci@0,0/pci-ide@7,1/ide@0/cmdk@0,0:b

doesn't produce anything. Is there another command I can use to get the disk based portion of /dev/dsk/c0d0s1?

This brings me to the original question, how do I get the disk based portion of swap on Solaris.

Thanks,
Dev
# 2  
Old 06-10-2009
df -h |grep swap
prtvtoc /dev/dsk/c0d0s2 --> check for slice 1
# 3  
Old 06-10-2009
Thanks incredible. That works on my Solaris 10. Forgot to mention this is Solaris 8 (Sparc, SunOS 5.8)

The command prtvtoc isn't available either on this installation. Smilie Any other options?
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Old 06-11-2009
format -> choose disk -> p-> p
Check the partition table size for swap slice
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