swapon.8 (537B)
1 .TH SWAPON 8 ubase-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 \fBswapon\fR - enable devices and files for paging and swapping 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 \fBswapon\fR [\fB-dp\fR] [\fB-a\fI device\fR] 6 .SH DESCRIPTION 7 \fBswapon\fR is used to specify devices on which paging and 8 swapping are to take place. 9 .SH OPTIONS 10 .TP 11 \fB-d\fR 12 Discard freed swap pages before they are reused. 13 .TP 14 \fB-p\fR 15 Set higher priority than the default to the new swap area. 16 .TP 17 \fB-a\fR 18 Make all devices marked as ``swap'' in /etc/fstab are made 19 available, except for those with the ``noauto'' option.