i did a sudo fdisk -l on my office issued laptop and here is the output :

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xeb36eb36

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2432 19535008+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 2433 4864 19535040 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2433 3648 9759928+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 3649 4864 9767488+ 83 Linux


okay, seems that somebody in my tech support dept messed up bigtime and did not install swap ... since it doesnt show up (or is it invisible ?)

the box is using windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 ...

if swap is indeed missing, is there a way i can install swap without reformatting or reinstalling ?

thanks in advance.