Re: Swap Files

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 18 Jan 1997 16:01:12 +0000 (GMT)

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> I find this annoying: at shutdown, swapfiles are never turned off.
> This keeps the partiton busy, and hence it needs to be fsck'ed at
> next boot.
>
> Should something be put into the kernel shutdown to release all
> swap files and umount all fs?

No you should use a Linux distribution that handles swap files correctly
as well as swap partitions. Its a userspace NOT a kernel problem

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