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4.1 KiB
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148 lines
4.1 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" @(#)swapon.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt SWAPON 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm swapon , swapoff
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.Nd control devices for interleaved paging/swapping
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn swapon "const char *special"
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.Ft int
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.Fn swapoff "const char *special"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn swapon
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system call
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makes the block device
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.Fa special
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available to the system for
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allocation for paging and swapping.
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The names of potentially
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available devices are known to the system and defined at system
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configuration time.
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The size of the swap area on
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.Fa special
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is calculated at the time the device is first made available
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for swapping.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn swapoff
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system call disables paging and swapping on the given device.
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All associated swap metadata are deallocated, and the device
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is made available for other purposes.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If an error has occurred, a value of -1 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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Both
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.Fn swapon
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and
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.Fn swapoff
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can fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named device does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The caller is not the super-user.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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The
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.Fa special
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argument
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Pp
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Additionally,
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.Fn swapon
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can fail for the following reasons:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The system has reached the boot-time limit on the number of
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swap devices,
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.Va vm.nswapdev .
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.It Bq Er ENOTBLK
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The
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.Fa special
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argument
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is not a block device.
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.It Bq Er EBUSY
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The device specified by
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.Fa special
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has already
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been made available for swapping
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.It Bq Er ENXIO
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The major device number of
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.Fa special
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is out of range (this indicates no device driver exists
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for the associated hardware).
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while opening the swap device.
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.El
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.Pp
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Lastly,
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.Fn swapoff
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can fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The system is not currently swapping to
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.Fa special .
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.It Bq Er ENOMEM
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Not enough virtual memory is available to safely disable
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paging and swapping to the given device.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr config 8 ,
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.Xr swapon 8 ,
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.Xr sysctl 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn swapon
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system call appeared in
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.Bx 4.0 .
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The
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.Fn swapoff
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system call appeared in
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.Fx 5.0 .
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