How to disable a Ram Swap permanently

[Steve]

On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:36:01 -0000, Lawrence Tsang <tkwinfo at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>      Originally I am using Ubuntu Karmic with no swap partition / swap  
> file.
> The Ubuntu system automatically initializes a 500M Ram Swap for me.  
> Recently
> I manage to create a 2G Swap Partition and install the Swap Partition by
> adding a line in /etc/fstab.
>
>      However, after booting my system, I find that there are in fact 2  
> swaps
> on my system --- the Ram Swap and the Swap Partition. The listing after
> running the "swapon -s" command is :
>
> root at tkwinfo-desktop:/home/tkwinfo# swapon -s
> Filename                Type        Size    Used    Priority
> /dev/ramzswap0                          partition    515288    0    100
> /dev/sdc3                               partition    2216960    0    -1
>
>      The Swap Partition (/dev/sdc3) has only a priority of -1 while the  
> Ram
> Swap (/dev/ramzswap0) is still installed.
>
>      I want to know that :
> (1) Is the Ram Swap still necessary? If not, how to remove it.
> (2) How to increase the priority of the Swap Partition.
>
>      Any idea? Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Lawrence
>
All you need to do is edit /etc/fstab

-- 
Steve

Yorvyk