Messages in this thread |  | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: Swap Files | Date | Sun, 19 Jan 1997 08:42:24 +1100 (EST) |
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Andrew E. Mileski wrote: > > I bet you don't use swap files! If so, then please explain what is wrong. > Try this yourself: > dd if=/dev/zero of=swap bs=1024 count=1028 > mkswap swap > free ; swapon -v swap > free ; swapoff -a ; free > You'll then see what I mean - the swap file stays active.
I do use swap files but I do see what you mean. I guess that the reason I don't see this problem is that my swapfiles are on my root fs, so it gets remounted ro at reboot/shutdown.
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