swapoff
Disable swap devices and files
TLDR
Disable a swap area
$ sudo swapoff /path/to/swapfile
Disable all swap areas$ sudo swapoff -a
Disable swap by label$ sudo swapoff -L swap_label
Disable swap by UUID$ sudo swapoff -U uuid
SYNOPSIS
swapoff [-va] [specialfile...]
DESCRIPTION
swapoff disables swapping on the specified devices and files. When swapoff is called, all pages that are swapped to the specified areas are swapped back into RAM before the swap area is disabled.
PARAMETERS
-a, --all
Disable all swap areas listed in /proc/swaps-L label
Disable swap partition with the specified label-U uuid
Disable swap partition with the specified UUID-v, --verbose
Enable verbose output-h, --help
Display help text and exit-V, --version
Display version information and exit
INSTALL
sudo apt install mount
sudo apk add util-linux-misc
nix profile install nixpkgs#mount
CAVEATS
Disabling swap requires enough RAM to hold all swapped-out pages. If there is insufficient RAM, swapoff will fail. This can take significant time on heavily used swap areas.
HISTORY
swapoff is part of the util-linux package. It is the counterpart to swapon for disabling swap space.
