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SWAPON(2)                DragonFly System Calls Manual               SWAPON(2)


NAME

     swapon, swapoff - control devices for interleaved paging/swapping


LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)


SYNOPSIS

     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     swapon(const char *special);

     int
     swapoff(const char *special);


DESCRIPTION

     The swapon() system call makes the block device special available to the
     system for allocation for paging and swapping.  The size of the swap area
     on special is calculated at the time the device is first made available
     for swapping.

     The swapoff() system call disables paging and swapping on the given
     device.  All associated swap metadata are deallocated, and the device is
     made available for other purposes.


RETURN VALUES

     If an error has occurred, a value of -1 is returned and errno is set to
     indicate the error.


ERRORS

     Both swapon() and swapoff() can fail if:

     [ENOTDIR]          A component of the path prefix is not a directory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]     A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or
                        an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.

     [ENOENT]           The named device does not exist.

     [EACCES]           Search permission is denied for a component of the
                        path prefix.

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

     [EPERM]            The caller is not the super-user.

     [EFAULT]           The special argument points outside the process's
                        allocated address space.

     Additionally, swapon() can fail for the following reasons:

     [EINVAL]           The system has reached the boot-time limit on the
                        number of swap devices, vm.nswapdev.

     [ENOTBLK]          The special argument is not a block device.

     [EBUSY]            The device specified by special has already been made
                        available for swapping

     [ENXIO]            The major device number of special is out of range
                        (this indicates no device driver exists for the
                        associated hardware).

     [EIO]              An I/O error occurred while opening the swap device.

     Lastly, swapoff() can fail if:

     [EINVAL]           The system is not currently swapping to special.

     [ENOMEM]           Not enough virtual memory is available to safely
                        disable paging and swapping to the given device.


SEE ALSO

     swapon(8), sysctl(8)


HISTORY

     The swapon() system call appeared in 4.0BSD.  The swapoff() system call
     appeared in FreeBSD 5.0 and was later ported to DragonFly 2.7.

DragonFly 5.7-DEVELOPMENT      September 7, 2010     DragonFly 5.7-DEVELOPMENT

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