Permanently delete swapfile?

[5149.5]

I have a swap partition and I would like to delete the swapfile setting that is a leftover from the install. I can turn it off using the dphys-swapfile swapoff command but it returns after a boot.

dan@dan-AOD255://var$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda6 partition 5119996 0 -1
/var/swap file 2097148 0 -2

[Strongman332]

um i don't think you can get rid of it as it is a partition. maybe you can resize it and make it smaller. but if you do get rid of it expect problems later. no hibernate. oh and if your run out of ram Im not sure what will happen

[wojox]

Look in /etc/fstab and comment it out and see what happens.

[5149.5]

I want to get rid of the file not the partition. The entry in fstab is for the partition that I want to keep.

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
UUID=dd029b11-e1e0-4b3e-a0e5-3f7518e07ab5 / ext4 errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda7 /home2 ext4 defaults 0 2

I want to use sda6 for swap space.




dan@dan-AOD255:/var$ ls -l swap*
-rw------- 1 root root 2147483648 2011-03-16 18:36 swap

I want to get rid of this file.

[wojox]

Oh, you didn't make that very clear.

sudo rm -rf /var/swap

[5149.5]

Oh, you didn't make that very clear.

sudo rm -rf /var/swap

I tried that.

rm: cannot remove `/var/swap': Operation not permitted

[wojox]

sudo su

rm -rf /var/swap

[5149.5]

sudo su

rm -rf /var/swap

dan@dan-AOD255:/var$ sudo su
[sudo] password for dan:
root@dan-AOD255:/var# rm -rf /var/swap
rm: cannot remove `/var/swap': Operation not permitted

[wojox]

Did you disable swap before trying?

[5149.5]

Did you disable swap before trying?

I thought I did. It works better with swap disabled. Now will the file get recreated after a boot. Or will the computer complain because it's not there now. Only one way to find out. Back in a minute.