Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 1997 17:22:12 +0200 (EET) | From | Johan Myréen <> | 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?
I don't think so. swapon -a means "swap on all swap areas mentioned in /etc/fstab", so swapoff -a should mean "stop swapping on the areas mentioned in /etc/fstab". If you add swap areas manually, why can't you remove them manually? Why would you even *want* swapoff -a to remove a swap area swapon -a hasn't added?
Johan Myreen jem@iki.fi
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