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SWAPCTL(8)		 BSD System Manager's Manual		    SWAPCTL(8)

NAME
     swapctl, swapon - system swap management tool

SYNOPSIS
     swapctl -A [-p priority] [-t blk|noblk]
     swapctl -a [-p priority] path
     swapctl -c -p priority path
     swapctl -d path
     swapctl -l | -s [-k]
     swapon -a | path

DESCRIPTION
     The swapctl program adds, removes, lists and prioritizes swap devices and
     files for the system. The swapon program acts the same as the swapctl
     program, as if called with the -a option, except if swapon itself is
     called with -a, in which case swapon acts as swapctl with the -A option.

     Note: The initial swap device (root disk, partition b) is handled au-
     tomatically by the kernel and does not need to be added to /etc/fstab or
     added via swapctl. It will show up as "swap_device" in the output
     displayed with the -l flag.

     The options are as follows:

     -A	     This option causes swapctl to read the /etc/fstab file for dev-
	     ices and files with an "sw" type, and adds all these entries as
	     swap devices. If no swap devices are configured, swapctl will
	     exit with an error code.

     -a	     The -a option requires that a path also be in the argument list.
	     The path is added to the kernel's list of swap devices using the
	     swapctl(2) system call. When using the swapon form of this com-
	     mand, the -a option is treated the same as the -A option, for
	     backwards compatibility.

     -c	     The -c option changes the priority of the listed swap device or
	     file.

     -d path
	     The -d option removes the listed path from the kernel's list of
	     swap devices or files.

     -l	     The -l option lists the current swap devices and files, and their
	     usage statistics.

     -s	     The -s option displays a single line summary of current swap
	     statistics.

     -p priority
	     The -p option sets the priority of swap devices or files to the
	     priority argument. This works with the -a, -c and -l options.

     -k	     The -k option uses 1024 byte blocks instead of the default 512
	     byte.

     -t blk|noblk
	     This flag modifies the function of the -A option. The -t option
	     allows the type of device to add to be specified. An argument of
	     blk causes all block devices in /etc/fstab to be added. An argu-
	     ment of noblk causes all non-block devices in /etc/fstab to be
	     added. This option is useful in early system startup, where swap-
	     ping may be needed before all file systems are available, such as
	     during disk checks of large file systems.

SWAP OPTIONS
     When parsing the /etc/fstab file for swap devices, lines such as the fol-
     lowing specify additional swap devices:

	   /dev/sd1b none swap sw 0 0

     Additional flags include:

     priority=N	     This option sets the priority of the specified swap dev-
		     ice to N. The highest priority is 0, second priority is
		     1, etc.
     nfsmntpt=/path  This option is useful for swapping to NFS files. It
		     specifies the local mount point to mount an NFS filesys-
		     tem. Typically, once this mount has succeeded, the file
		     to be used for swapping on will be available under this
		     point mount. For example:

		     server:/export/swap/client none swap sw,nfsmntpt=/swap

WARNINGS
     Local and remote swap files cannot be configured until the file systems
     they reside on are mounted read/write. The system startup scripts need to
     fsck(8) all local file systems before this can happen. This process re-
     quires substantial amounts of memory on some systems. If one configures
     no local block swap devices on a machine that has local file systems to
     check and rely only on swap files, the machine will have no swap space at
     all during system fsck(8) and may run out of real memory, causing fsck to
     abnormally exit and startup scripts to fail.

SEE ALSO
     swapctl(2), fstab(5), mount_nfs(8), vnconfig(8)

HISTORY
     The swapctl program was originally developed in NetBSD 1.3. It was ported
     to OpenBSD 2.6 by Tobias Weingartner. The original swapon program, pro-
     vided for backwards compatibility, appeared in 4.0BSD. The default prior-
     ity was changed from 0 to 1 in MirOS #8.

AUTHORS
     The swapctl program was written by Matthew R. Green <mrg@eterna.com.au>.

MirOS BSD #10-current		June 12, 1997				     1
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