From owner-freebsd-doc Fri May 3 22:24:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from turbine.trit.org (turbine.trit.org [63.198.170.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 356AF37B41A for ; Fri, 3 May 2002 22:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turbine.trit.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turbine.trit.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4943E1E; Sat, 4 May 2002 05:24:40 +0000 (UTC) To: Ceri Davies Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question regardin swapon(8) In-Reply-To: <20020503194101.GA96597@submonkey.net>; from setantae@submonkey.net on "Fri, 3 May 2002 20:41:01 +0100" Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 05:24:40 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman Message-Id: <20020504052440.AC4943E1E@turbine.trit.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ceri Davies 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