How to disable a Ram Swap permanently

Johnneylee Rollins johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 12:36:12 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>

I was referring to the priorities.

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