Re: Removing failed swap drive

For everyone's amusement...

I went to visit the server and rebooted it. The Dell server BIOS halted 
with "Drive configuration has changed, press F1 to continue or F2 to 
enter setup"

Doah! I suspected there might be reboot problems but I wasn't expecting 
anything so stupid. But I was there to press F1.

Swap partitions mentioned in fstab that not present at boot time (i.e. 
on the failed disk) are simply not loaded.

The question remains unanswered - how do you tell a running system to 
stop using a swap device when the device is fubar.

The supplementary question - how do you stop a jail running when one of 
its processes is waiting for an IO operation that will never complete 
(zombied) also remains.