removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> "man swapon" says:
> 
> BUGS
>      There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.  It is 
>      therefore
>      not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
>      operation.
> 
> Is that still a bug?

That depends on which version you are running.
If you have 4.x or 5.0 then you're out of luck, but a recent -current has
the swapctl command which does what you want.

Ceri

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