Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 08:57:38 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@HeadCandy.com> To: Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: turing off swap interleaving Message-ID: <199607221557.IAA03361@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 22 Jul 96 13:31:39 %2B0100. <Pine.BSI.3.93.960722133110.23948H-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
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>Also I managed to delete the swap file after swapping on it! I think it
>didn`t free up the space on the file system however. Is this safe or not?
Uh, have you ever used Unix before? ;-)
As long as the kernel has a file descriptor open on the file, it still
exists. You merely removed the last named reference to it on the
disk. Once the kernel closes the last reference to the file, it will
see that there are no remaining links to it, and remove it completely.
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