[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #4843: Disabling VirtualMemory does not free up disk space
- From: "hamish" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:02:59 -0000
#4843: Disabling VirtualMemory does not free up disk space
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Reporter: Adek336 | Owner: leavengood
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Preferences/VirtualMemory | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by hamish):
The way you fix this is relevant to a patch I'm working on in #3723.
With support for swap on different volumes, simply deleting /var/swap at
boot won't work. Also, deleting the swap file from the volume specified in
the config won't work either, because the user could have changed the swap
volume and rebooted, leaving a dormant swap file on the old volume.
I thought a possible solution might be to symlink /var/swap to wherever
the swap file actually is, and delete through that at boot. This would
require that the target volume be manually mounted and then unmounted for
the deletion.
Ideally, there would be a procedure to switch off virtual mem at system
shutdown which would make use of the existing swap_file_delete() function.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4843#comment:4>
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