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    Finding out what is in the swap file?

    Hi all.

    I have recently become accustomed to hibernating (i.e suspend to disk) my laptop instead of shutting it down. I have noted that upon waking up, a very small amount (a few Mbs) of swap remain used, and on subsequent hibernate/wake operations this increases bit by bit. To put it into perspective after several hibernate/wake operations about 60 Mbs out of 2Gb of swap remain in use.

    It's not a big deal but I am curious about what is occupying the space and wonder whether there is any command I could use to find out?

    Thanks

    Ian

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    Re: Finding out what is in the swap file?

    Just guessing, but use dd to copy it to a text file?

    You might have to turn swap off, but if you turn swap off the data might go away.
    we see things not as they are, but as we are.
    -- anais nin

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