[svlug] Confused about swap partitions

[Skip Evans]

Hey all,

Since I've typically relied on whatever distro 
I've installed to handle setting up partitions, I 
don't have any real experience doing so for Linux 
(done it for BSD, but there again, the install 
handles it, and I've typically taken the defaults.)

I read over the link Rick sent through:
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html

...but what I'm confused about is that swap 
doesn't seem to show up as an actual partition like:

/swap

...or at least Karsten doesn't list it so in his 
documentation.

When you do a df command, should the swap 
partition show up there? For example, here is the 
output on my Xandros 3.0 install:

sevans at linux1:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available 
Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             80073544  12888540  67185004 
  17% /
tmpfs                   453284         0    453284 
   0% /dev/shm


No swap is listed.

Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Skip