On Thursday 13 July 2017 12:00:43 Alan Corey wrote: > Mine looks like: > > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/sda1 /boot vfat defaults 0 2 > /dev/sda2 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1 > /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 > Reading the manpage, I used: /dev/sda2 none swap sw,defaults And after a reboot, htop shows swap at 2099 megs. That includes the 100 meg swapFILE in /var. To turn that off: sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff or sudo dphys-swapfile swapon
I just turned it off. That I think can be put into /etc/rc.local as it runs as root. But I can't make that work, without or with a sudo in front of it. So where can I put it?. I turned it off, then removed /var/swap. Won't reboot. WTH? THere isn't anything in fstab but what I added, and nothing in /boot/config.txt or cmdline.txt about swap. I can recover, but the most recent edits in the linuxcnc tree haven't been backed up, damn!!!!! I'll try a full powerdown before I swap cards to begin the recovery. > And when you reboot you should see it in top as an increase in swap. > > The only downside I've found is that piclone doesn't know to ignore > it. I put mine at the end of 320 GB, now I can't use piclone for > backups to SD anymore. But there's been discussion that swap will > wear out an SD fast, they're rated by read/write cyccles. Eggzakly. :) Thanks Alan. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
