From 0d761944dd1130c81ec770ed318ae7ed3338c702 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karel Zak Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 14:53:27 +0100 Subject: swapon: add -f/--fixpgsz option The patch: commit 3399a218f4eff4016a22044e7c416521bc37c53c Author: Matthias Koenig 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 CC: Olaf Hering CC: Matthias Koenig Signed-off-by: Karel Zak --- mount/swapon.8 | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'mount/swapon.8') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522