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Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 19:41:54 -0200 (BRDT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: swapoff weird
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On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:

> It is possible to remove swapfile in use. Great, but how do you
> swap off then? Who is to blame?

As usual, root is to blame ;)

> root@bug:~# swapoff /tmp/swap
> swapoff: /tmp/swap: No such file or directory
> root@bug:~# > /tmp/swap
> root@bug:~# swapoff /tmp/swap
> swapoff: /tmp/swap: Invalid argument
> root@bug:~#

Don't let your automatic /tmp cleaners remove the swap
file ;)

> How do I get out of this bad situation?

Reboot.

cheers,

Rik
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