Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 05:24:40 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> To: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question regardin swapon(8) Message-ID: <20020504052440.AC4943E1E@turbine.trit.org> In-Reply-To: <20020503194101.GA96597@submonkey.net>; from setantae@submonkey.net on "Fri, 3 May 2002 20:41:01 %2B0100"
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Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> wrote: > Sorry to bother you with something so trivial, but I've a question regarding > the manual page for swapon(8). > > In the BUGS section, it states : > > 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. > > Now I could be wrong, but would I be correct in saying that swap devices aren't > actually "mounted" ? Yes. I think "configure" would be appropriate, so the above would become: :There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is :therefore not possible to deconfigure swap devices which were :configured during system operation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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