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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement | |
| 3 | .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| da8074e5 | 5 | .\" @(#)swapon.8 6.2 (Berkeley) %G% |
| bd32a0dc | 6 | .\" |
| f5669b0a | 7 | .TH SWAPON 8 "" |
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8 | .UC 4 |
| 9 | .SH NAME | |
| 10 | swapon \- specify additional device for paging and swapping | |
| 11 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| da8074e5 | 12 | .B "swapon [-a] [special_file ...]" |
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13 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 14 | .I Swapon | |
| 15 | is used to specify additional devices on which paging and swapping | |
| 16 | are to take place. | |
| 17 | The system begins by swapping and paging on only a single device | |
| 18 | so that only one disk is required at bootstrap time. | |
| 19 | Calls to | |
| 20 | .I swapon | |
| 21 | normally occur in the system multi-user initialization file | |
| 22 | .I /etc/rc | |
| 23 | making all swap devices available, so that the paging and swapping | |
| 24 | activity is interleaved across several devices. | |
| 25 | .PP | |
| 26 | Normally, the | |
| 27 | .B \-a | |
| 28 | argument is given, causing all devices marked as ``sw'' | |
| 29 | swap devices in | |
| 30 | .B /etc/fstab | |
| 31 | to be made available. | |
| 32 | .PP | |
| 33 | The second form gives individual block devices as given | |
| 34 | in the system swap configuration table. The call makes only this space | |
| 35 | available to the system for swap allocation. | |
| 36 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 37 | swapon(2), init(8) | |
| 38 | .SH FILES | |
| 39 | .DT | |
| da8074e5 | 40 | /dev/[ru][pk]?b standard paging devices |
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41 | .SH BUGS |
| 42 | There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. | |
| 43 | It is therefore not possible to make use of devices which may be | |
| 44 | dismounted during system operation. |