Re: Swap Files

Andrew E. Mileski (aem@ott.hookup.net)
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 13:55:17 -0500 (EST)


> 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?

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