Subject: Re: swapctl -d
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Feico Dillema <dillema@acm.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/24/2000 20:27:15
On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 10:19:08AM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> "swapctl -d" on a non-empty swap device is fine as long as there's
> enough memory and remaining swap (if you started with multiple swap devices)
> to contain all the data that's in the swap device you're removing.
> 
> I thought I had a check in there to fail if there wasn't enough space
> left after removing the requested device, but I guess it's not working.
> I'll look at it in the next few days.

Is this added very recently or is the manpage of swapctl out of date:

BUGS
     The swapoff command and the -d option of swapctl are not currently sup-
     ported by NetBSD.

Feico.