How to disable a Ram Swap permanently

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 12:17:06 UTC 2010


>>> To increase the prioirity, change the last column of your /etc/fstab swap
>>> definitions. Currently one of them is set to 100 and the other set to -1
>>> (which would be the minimum priority. Swap them around if you want to
>>> preserve both. If you have only one swap partition/file, the priority
>>> doesn't mean anything and can be left at anything.

>> Very very wrong.  Do not change the numbers at the end of the swap
>> lines.  See man fstab for more details.

> It is you who is very wrong Rashkae:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=205262&postcount=3
> The swap filesystem isn't the same as other filesystems.

Your link above confirms what Rahskae said: for swap, the dump and
pass values in fstab must both be 0.




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