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#include <unistd.h>
The swapoff() system call disables paging and swapping on the given device. All associated swap metadata are deallocated, and the device is made available for other purposes.
[ENOTDIR] | |
A component of the path prefix is not a directory. | |
[ENAMETOOLONG] | |
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters. | |
[ENOENT] | |
The named device does not exist. | |
[EACCES] | |
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. | |
[ELOOP] | |
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. | |
[EPERM] | |
The caller is not the super-user. | |
[EFAULT] | |
The special argument points outside the process's allocated address space. | |
Additionally, swapon() can fail for the following reasons:
[ENOTBLK] | |
The special argument is not a block device. | |
[EBUSY] | |
The device specified by special has already been made available for swapping | |
[ENXIO] | |
The major device number of special is out of range (this indicates no device driver exists for the associated hardware). | |
[EIO] | An I/O error occurred while opening the swap device. |
[EINTEGRITY] | |
Corrupted data was detected while reading from the file system to open the swap device. | |
Lastly, swapoff() can fail if:
[EINVAL] | |
The system is not currently swapping to special. | |
[ENOMEM] | |
Not enough virtual memory is available to safely disable paging and swapping to the given device. | |
SWAPON (2) | March 30, 2020 |
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