Hello, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/29/23 15:21, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 03:15:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > I have SSD's for swap on an rpi4b, so to lessen the abuse of the u-sd > > > card I > > > need to turn off the swap file, and swapon -a the SSD stuff. > > > > Have you looked in /etc/fstab where as you know filesystem mounts > > are described? If the swap file is listed in there, remove it and > > add one that's on your SSD.
[…] > Swap file is the last thing I want, much slower than a swap partition. There has been no performance difference between swap files and swap partitions for more than a decade. > cnc@rpi4:/etc$ sudo swapon -s > Filename Type Size Used > Priority > /dev/zram0 partition 1048572 98304 > 100 > /dev/sda2 partition 9859068 0 > -3 > > I need it to forget zram0 and use the swap on sda2 You didn't respond to the part about /etc/fstab so we have no idea if you found the information you needed. Assuming you did find the errant entry in /etc/fstab, a sequence of: 1. swapoff -a 2. edit /etc/fstab to be correct 3. swapon -a should change things to how you want them. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
