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Old 08-13-2004
Clearing Swapfiles?
Hi,

Does anyone know of a command to safely clear the swapfiles to free up diskspace? It's done at shutdown/startup, but I'd rather not have down time, if possible.

Thanks,

MrToast

(BTW, Mac OS X 10.3.5 Smilie )
Last edited by MrToast; 08-13-2004 at 01:24 PM..
# 2  
Old 08-15-2004
You could run as su or root, the command;

swapoff -a

then turn it back on with

swapon -a

you can check to see if the swap is turned off using the top command.
# 3  
Old 08-16-2004
Maybe it's just me, but I can't seem to find the man entries on these commands.

Here's what I'm hoping to be able to do:
swapoff -a
clearswap
swapon -a

Where clearswap will take all these swapfiles and delete them, giving me my gig of harddrive space back.

Thanks,

MrToast
# 4  
Old 08-16-2004
try the command for more info:

info coreutils

or for a specific entry
info swapon
or
info shred
 
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