Ceri Davies wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > >>"man swapon" says: >> >>BUGS >> There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is >> therefore >> not possible to dismount swap devices which are mounted during system >> operation. >> >>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.
Thanks. So I'm out-of-luck with 4.8 :). I wonder if a brief note on this could go at the end of the "adding swap space" section in the handbook. Something like Removing swap space: for OSversion <= 5.0 only reboot can do otherwise swapctl command does it on a running system. Regards, Rob. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"