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swap partition showing mounted in df -h

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Anyone can help me what is the problem of swap partition? swap partition is showing mounted in df -h command output.

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I don't think you see a swap partition mounted but just one or more filesystems with swap as their back-end, like /tmp, /var/run and /etc/svc/volatile.
There is nothing wrong with that.

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