swap off?

[Ian Killer_1]

Is there any way to turn off swap on a filesystem without rebooting. I have a fs mounted and failed to "swapon" it properly because of a bad /etc/fstab entry. It doesn't appear in swapinfo, yet the filesystem won't unmount (device busy). Fuser -cu doesn't reveal anything.

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi

Nope, the only way to remove swap is by removing the entry in fstab and rebooting the machine

Regards

Steve

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

The is no way......you will have to remove the entry from /etc/fstab and reboot the system.

Piyush

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ian:

That's the downside. To turn on swap, no reboot is required. To turn it off, however, you must remove the entry from '/etc/fstab' and *reboot*.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ian Killer_1]

THanks all.