Quick Answer: How Do I Delete Swap Files in Ubuntu?
Contents How Do I Delete a Swap File? to Remove a Swap File: at a Shell Prompt as Root, Execute the Following Command to Disable the Swap File (Where /Swapfile...
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How do I delete a swap file?
To remove a swap file:
- At a shell prompt as root, execute the following command to disable the swap file (where /swapfile is the swap file): # swapoff -v /swapfile.
- Remove its entry from the /etc/fstab file.
- Remove the actual file: # rm /swapfile.
How do I clear swap usage in Linux?
To clear the swap memory on your system, you simply need to cycle off the swap. This moves all data from swap memory back into RAM. It also means that you need to be sure you have the RAM to support this operation. An easy way to do this is to run ‘free -m’ to see what is being used in swap and in RAM.
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