about removing swap

[surendranath]

I have created file sytem swap on one of the file sytems and enabled it. Now, I want to remove that swap space from the file system without any data loss?

hqlabbu2:> swapinfo -f
Kb Kb Kb PCT Kb Kb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
fs 8192 0 8192 0% 8192 0 1 /suren/paging

[Patrick Wallek]

If you did not add this to /etc/fstab so it is automatically activated at boot time, then just reboot.

If it is in /etc/fstab, then remove the line and reboot.

You cannot deactivate swap without rebooting the server.

[surendranath]

Will reboot. After reboot can I use the 8MB space which I allocated?

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Yes.

After the reboot just verify that 'swapinfo' no longer shows your file system swap.

[surendranath]

got solution.