Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Jan 1997 23:40:20 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Swap Files |
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Hi,
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:24:24 -0500 (EST), "Andrew E. Mileski" <aem@ott.hookup.net> said:
>> > I find this annoying: at shutdown, swapfiles are never turned off. >> > This keeps the partiton busy, and hence it needs to be fsck'ed at >> > next boot. >> >> This is a local configuration problem. ...
> 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.
Read the man page. "swapoff -a" deactivates every swap file which is listed in /etc/fstab, so it cannot deactivate other swap files which have been added manually. Do a "swapoff swap" and you will see the file deactivated.
In other words, to make sure things work correctly your swap files must be listed in /etc/fstab, and you need a "swapoff -a" run during system shutdown. Given all that, things should work as expected.
Cheers, Stephen.
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