Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:55:54 -0500 (EST) | From | Ion Badulescu <> | Subject | Re: Swap Files |
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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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