How to clear swap?

[asmar]

Hello,

I closed all the applications that ate the RAM and swap still apear to be around 200MB.
Is there a way to clear the swap file?

Probably it doesn't matter but the system is running SuSE 10.

Many thanks

[drakebasher]

I don't think you want to clear your swap file. If you do, though, let us know what happens (but I know it won't be good.)

[asmar]

Anyone with an answer if there is a way to clear the swap?

drakebasher, I cannot see the point of your post. You didn't answer any of my questions.

[drakebasher]

Anyone with an answer if there is a way to clear the swap?

drakebasher, I cannot see the point of your post. You didn't answer any of my questions.

I would think that re-formatting the swap space would clear it as well as possible. Try 'mkswap /dev/hdxx'. You may need to unmount it first. Try 'umount /dev/hdxx'. If it complains, do 'umount -l /dev/hdxx' and if it still doesn't work, do 'umount -f /dev/hdxx'

I look forward to hearing of your success.

[genesus]

instead of unmount do

swapoff /dev/hdxx

[asmar]

instead of unmount do

swapoff /dev/hdxx

Thanks a lot genesus, that worked great. No problems at all.