On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:30:49PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > > >>"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. > > Thanks. So I'm out-of-luck with 4.8 :).
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Afraid so.
> I wonder if a brief note on this could go at the end of the "adding swap space"
> section in the handbook. Something like
>
> Removing swap space:
> for OSversion <= 5.0 only reboot can do
> otherwise swapctl command does it on a running system.
Already added to the todo list ;)
Ceri
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