De-activate a swap partition
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Sun Mar 19 19:51:19 UTC 2006
Anne Wilson wrote:
> I want to reorganise partitions on hdb - combining some, to make fewer, larger
> partitions. gparted says that I can't do that, because hdb11 is being used
> as a swap partition. I do have a swap on hda, so could easily manage wihout
> it temporarily. Is there any way to do that without rebooting? I removed it
> from fstab and did 'mount -a', but that doesn't solve the problem. I think
> I'm right in saying that it is not mounted, in a conventional sense, so I
> don't know how to proceed.
$ apropos swap
...
swapoff [swapon] (2) - start/stop swapping to file/device
swapoff [swapon] (8) - enable/disable devices and files for paging
and swapping
swapon (2) - start/stop swapping to file/device
swapon (8) - enable/disable devices and files for paging
and swapping
-Andy
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