Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:30:49 +0900 From: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug? Message-ID: <3F5C7679.1080100@snu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <20030908092115.GD364@submonkey.net> References: <3F5C3DC6.2010809@snu.ac.kr> <20030908092115.GD364@submonkey.net>
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Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
>
>>"man swapon" says:
>>
>>BUGS
>> There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is
>> therefore
>> not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
>> operation.
>>
>>Is that still a bug?
>
>
> That depends on which version you are running.
> If you have 4.x or 5.0 then you're out of luck, but a recent -current has
> the swapctl command which does what you want.
Thanks. So I'm out-of-luck with 4.8 :).
I wonder if a brief note on this could go at the end of the "adding swap space"
section in the handbook. Something like
Removing swap space:
for OSversion <= 5.0 only reboot can do
otherwise swapctl command does it on a running system.
Regards,
Rob.
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