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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 08/28/2010 04:36 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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>>> Dale schrieb am 28.08.2010 13:13: |
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>>>> P. S. Any way to label swap? It's not reiserfs or ext*. |
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>>>> |
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>>> It is swap :) |
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>>> |
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>>> swappoff -a |
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>>> mkswap -L label device |
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>>> swapon -a |
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>>> |
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>> I found that later while reading some other man page. I got to look into |
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>> that swapon -a option tho. Never seen that before. I think I know what |
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>> it is tho. |
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> It enabled the swap. The boot init scripts automatically do a swapon |
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> -a when you boot. But since you need to do a swappoff -a first and |
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> disable the swap in order to recreate it, you need to enable it again |
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> manually with swapon -a if you don't reboot. |
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It's been a while since I read the man page for swapon/off. I don't |
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remember seeing it before but that does save me from typing in a longer |
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command. I sometimes want to clear out swap, after compiling OOo or |
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something, and that is a bit easier to do. |
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Neat tip. Thanks. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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