Aha. I tried 'man swap' but didn't think of 'swapon'. My google search was not
very productive, so I am thankful of your information! -Steve

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 07:16:16PM +0000, Iznogoud wrote:
> > 
> > For GNU/Linux, how do you turn swap off and how do you turn in back on again?
> > 
> 
> Here is the top of the manual page:
> 
> 
> NAME
>        swapon, swapoff - enable/disable devices and files for paging and swap-
>        ping
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        /sbin/swapon [-h -V]
>        /sbin/swapon -a [-v] [-e]
>        /sbin/swapon [-v] [-p priority]  specialfile ...
>        /sbin/swapon [-s]
>        /sbin/swapoff [-h -V]
>        /sbin/swapoff -a
>        /sbin/swapoff specialfile ...
> 
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