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Date:      Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:21:15 +0100
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Rob Lahaye <lahaye@snu.ac.kr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?
Message-ID:  <20030908092115.GD364@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <3F5C3DC6.2010809@snu.ac.kr>
References:  <3F5C3DC6.2010809@snu.ac.kr>

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On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> "man swapon" says:
>=20
> BUGS
>      There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device.  It is=20
>      therefore
>      not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system
>      operation.
>=20
> 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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