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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:21:41 -0300 From: Peter Cordes <peter@...des.ca> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: no way to swapoff a deleted swap file? I unlinked a swapfile without realizing I was still swapping on it. Now my /proc/swaps looks like this: Filename Type Size Used Priority /var/tmp/EXP/cache/swap/1\040(deleted) file 1288644 1448 -1 /var/tmp/EXP/cache/swap/2\040(deleted) file 1433368 0 -2 AFAICT, there's nothing I can pass to swapoff(2) that will make the kernel let go of them. If that's the case, please consider this a feature request for a way to do this. Now I'm going to have to reboot before I can mkfs that partition. If kswapd0 had a fd open on the swap files, swapoff /proc/$PID/fd/3 could possibly work. But it looks like the files are open but with no user-space accessable file descriptors to them. Which makes sense, except for this case. thanks, and happy hacking, -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X(peter@cor , des.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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