Re: umount without sync

[Daniel Barclay <daniel@fgm.com>]

Scott Ferguson wrote:
>   On 17/09/10 22:25, T o n g wrote:
...
> umount swap? I suspect you mean "swapoff" (though I can't think of many
> uses).

There probably aren't many, but one is to reclaim disk space.

For example, if you use swap files (as opposed to partitions) and the file
system containing a swap file becomes full or low on space, if you're not
currently using too much swap space, you can use swapoff to stop using a
swap file, delete that file, and then have that space available for other
files.


Daniel