De-activate a swap partition
Craig McLean
craig at fukka.co.uk
Sun Mar 19 19:52:56 UTC 2006
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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.
>
> Anne
>
Anne,
Check the manpages for swapon/swapoff..
C.
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