Mount and Unmount

[Nils Kassube]

Rick wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007 12:34:37 pm Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Rick wrote:
> > > Is there a small app or applet that can be installed, to mount or
> > > unmount a partition ?
> > >
> > > want to unmount the swap partition
> >
> > The swap partition is not really mounted, i.e. it is not part of the
> > directory tree. I auusme you are looking for the commands swapoff and
> > swapon.
> >
> >
> > Nils
>
> TIA,
> that it...so swapon, swap is being used, swapoff, swap is not being
> used, 

Right - and the command needs to know which device you want to enable / 
disable. For more info see

man 8 swapon

in a terminal.

> is there a app for this, or just command line ? 

AFAIK it is only available via command line.


Nils