Re: Swap Files

Christoph Lameter (clameter@miriam.fuller.edu)
18 Jan 1997 15:28:59 -0800

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Andrew E. Mileski (aem@ott.hookup.net) wrote:
: > > I find this annoying: at shutdown, swapfiles are never turned off.
: > > This keeps the partiton busy, and hence it needs to be fsck'ed at
: > > next boot.
: > >
: > > Should something be put into the kernel shutdown to release all
: > > swap files and umount all fs?
: >
: > This is a local configuration problem. I'm running kernel
: > 2.1.17 + Debian 1.2 + sysvinit 2.6 and I don't have this
: > problem.
:
: I bet you don't use swap files! If so, then please explain what is wrong.

I have the same configuration (Kernel 2.0.27) and I am using swapfiles without a problem.

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