> On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > It is possible to remove swapfile in use. Great, but how do you
> > swap off then? Who is to blame?
>
> As usual, root is to blame ;)
I do not agree. It is too easy to get to situation like this.
> > root@bug:~# swapoff /tmp/swap
> > swapoff: /tmp/swap: No such file or directory
> > root@bug:~# > /tmp/swap
> > root@bug:~# swapoff /tmp/swap
> > swapoff: /tmp/swap: Invalid argument
> > root@bug:~#
>
> Don't let your automatic /tmp cleaners remove the swap
> file ;)
>
> > How do I get out of this bad situation?
>
> Reboot.
I'm afraid even reboot will not work.
I can't swapoff. Therefore filesystem is busy (it must be -- kernel
might be writing to file on it!). And no way to get out of that.
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