Re: I shrunk my swap partition, how do I let linux know?

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Subject: Re: I shrunk my swap partition, how do I let linux know?
From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
Date: 30 Oct 1999 08:20:29 -0500
Message-id: <[🔎] 87yaclj882.fsf@hasler.dhh>
In-reply-to: "John Miskinis"'s message of "Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:42:10 PDT"
References: <[🔎] 19991030054211.62229.qmail@hotmail.com>

You need to turn off swap with swapoff, reformat the swap partition with
mkswap, and turn swap back on with swapon.  man swapon, man mkswap.
-- 
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI

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