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    SubjectRe: Swap Files
    On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Andrew E. Mileski wrote:

    > > swapoff -a turnes off only partitions/files that are listed as swap in
    > > fstab.
    > >
    > > The solution is to either swapoff each file individually in rc.0 or to add
    > > them to fstab. The latter solution will give some (harmless) errors if the
    > > swapfiles are not on the root filesystem.
    >
    > Well wouldn't it make sense to have "swapoff -a" affect ALL swap areas?

    Definitely, but so far fstab is the only place where swapoff can get
    information about the swap areas. Perhaps a /proc/swapareas file would
    make sense, too...


    Ionut

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