The device or file used is given by the specialfile parameter. It may be of the form -L label or -U uuid to indicate a device by label or uuid.
Calls to swapon normally occur in the system multi-user initialization file /etc/rc making all swap devices available, so that the paging and swapping activity is interleaved across several devices and files.
Normally, the first form is used:
Tag | Description |
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-a | All devices marked as swap swap devices in /etc/fstab are made available, except for those with the noauto option. Devices that are already running as swap are silently skipped. |
-e | When -a is used with swapon, -e makes swapon silently skip devices that do not exist. |
-h | Provide help |
-L label | |
Use the partition that has the specified label. (For this, access to /proc/partitions is needed.) | |
-p priority | |
Specify priority for swapon. This option is only available if swapon was compiled under and is used under a 1.3.2 or later kernel. priority is a value between 0 and 32767. Higher numbers indicate higher priority. See swapon(2) for a full description of swap priorities. Add pri=value to the option field of /etc/fstab for use with swapon -a. | |
-s | Display swap usage summary by device. Equivalent to "cat /proc/swaps". Not available before Linux 2.1.25. |
-U uuid | Use the partition that has the specified uuid. (For this, access to /proc/partitions is needed.) |
-v | Be verbose. |
-V | Display version |
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