Series 300, 800 Only

NAME

swapon − add a swap device for interleaved paging/swapping

SYNOPSIS

swapon (special)
char *special;

DESCRIPTION

Swapon makes the block device special available to the system for allocation for paging and swapping.  The names of potentially available devices are known to the system and defined at system configuration time.  See the appropriate system administrator’s manual for information on how the size of the swap area is calculated. 

Swapon may be invoked only by the super-user. 

ERRORS

Swapon will fail if one or more of the following are true:

[ENOTBLK] Special is not the name of a block special file. 

[ENXIO] The device associated with special could not be opened. 

[EBUSY] The device associated with special is already in use. 

[ENODEV] The device associated with special does not exist. 

[EPERM] The effective user ID is not super-user. 

[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the path name. 

WARNINGS

There is no way to stop swapping on a disk so that the pack may be dismounted. 

DEPENDENCIES

The HFS file system is implemented on Series 300 and Series 800. 

AUTHOR

Swapon was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. 

SEE ALSO

swapon(1M). 

Hewlett-Packard Company  —  Version B.1,  May 11, 2021