How to safely remove swap partition in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
Issue
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Is there a way to stop active swap disks, so that they can move their load to other swap disks?
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Server being migrated from old SAN arrays to a new array. Secondary swap is currently in use as swap disks on the old array and the new array.
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From below list, I want to stop sda2 and sda3, but they have a multi-threaded load with primary swap. I'm assuming that only a reboot will let me drop them (already commented out in fstab).
# swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03 partition 2097144 368892 2
/dev/sda1 partition 28846072 368520 2
/dev/sda2 partition 28846072 368364 2
/dev/sdj1 partition 29360120 0 -1
/dev/sdj2 partition 29360120 0 -2
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Swap
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