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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Jacky Malcles <Jacky.Malcles@bull.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can't cleanup /proc/swaps without rebooting ?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:15:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070111151508.GR13675@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45A650D2.90901@bull.net>

On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:59:30PM +0100, Jacky Malcles wrote:
> is there a way, other than rebooting, to clean up /proc/swaps ?
> 
> I'm in this situation (due to testing errors),
> # cat /proc/swaps
> Filename                                Type            Size    Used    
> Priority
> /dev/sdc1                               partition       2040064 0       -1
> /tmp/swaH4mvTI/swapfilenext\040(deleted) file           48960   0       -31
> /tmp/swa5TlBva/swapfilenext\040(deleted) file           49088   0       -118
> #
> # swapon -s
> Filename                                Type            Size    Used    
> Priority
> /dev/sdc1                               partition       2040064 0       -1
> /tmp/swaH4mvTI/swapfilenext\040(deleted) file           48960   0       -31
> /tmp/swa5TlBva/swapfilenext\040(deleted) file           49088   0       -118
> #

"swapoff /dev/sdc1" or "swapoff /tmp/swa5TlBva/swapfilenext". Don't
know if the latter works when the file is unlinked, just try.


Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-11 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-11 14:59 Jacky Malcles
2007-01-11 15:15 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2007-01-11 16:09 ` Hugh Dickins

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