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| author | Karel Zak | 2009-03-03 14:53:27 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-03-03 15:21:38 +0100 |
| commit | 0d761944dd1130c81ec770ed318ae7ed3338c702 (patch) | |
| tree | 955d22b7931c6f83e2e2715bef59ffa6d68fc58d /mount/swapon.8 | |
| parent | swapon: cleanup man page (diff) | |
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swapon: add -f/--fixpgsz option
The patch:
commit 3399a218f4eff4016a22044e7c416521bc37c53c
Author: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de>
Date: Thu Nov 27 12:32:56 2008 +0100
swapon: add swap format detection and pagesize check
introduced a new feature. This feature should be optional (disabled by
default) to keep happy people who use swap-space bad blocks or
nonstandard swap-space size.
CC: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
CC: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
CC: Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mount/swapon.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | mount/swapon.8 | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mount/swapon.8 b/mount/swapon.8 index 6fc6571c8..66adc8724 100644 --- a/mount/swapon.8 +++ b/mount/swapon.8 @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ Enable/disable: .br .in +5 .B swapon +.RB [ \-f ] .RB [ \-p .IR priority ] .RB [ \-v ] @@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ Enable/disable all: .in +5 .B swapon \-a .RB [ \-e ] +.RB [ \-f ] .RB [ \-v ] .br .B swapoff \-a @@ -116,6 +118,12 @@ Devices that are already being used as swap are silently skipped. .B "\-e, \-\-ifexists" Silently skip devices that do not exist. .TP +.B "\-f, \-\-fixpgsz" +Reinitialize (exec /sbin/mkswap) the swap space when the page size mismatch between +the current running kernel and swap space is detected. Note that in such a case +.B mkswap(2) +initializes the whole device and does not check for bad blocks. +.TP .B \-h, \-\-help Provide help. .TP |