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From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
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Subject: Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?
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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:30:49PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
>=20
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> >=20
> >>"man swapon" says:
> >>
> >>BUGS
> >>     There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.  It is=20
> >>     therefore
> >>     not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during sys=
tem
> >>     operation.
> >>
> >>Is that still a bug?
> >=20
> >=20
> > 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 h=
as
> > the swapctl command which does what you want.
>=20
> Thanks. So I'm out-of-luck with 4.8 :).

Afraid so.

> I wonder if a brief note on this could go at the end of the "adding swap =
space"
> section in the handbook. Something like
>=20
> Removing swap space:
> 	for OSversion <=3D 5.0 only reboot can do
>         otherwise swapctl command does it on a running system.

Already added to the todo list ;)

Ceri
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