Swapoff

wikipedia:swapoff command enable and disable devices and files for paging and swapping. In Ubuntu and Debian is included in the mount package. https://linux.die.net/man/8/swapoff

Examples

swapoff /dev/mapper/rhvh-swap
swapoff -a

swapoff
swapoff: bad usage
Try 'swapoff --help' for more information.

Related commands

• swapon

See also

• Swap, swapon, swapoff, mkswap, swaplabel, free,sar -r, sar -S, sar -W, vmstat, vm.swappiness, /proc/swaps, /etc/fstab, Add a swap disk, systemd.swap
• File systems: mount, umount, findmnt, find, swapon, swapoff, UUID, blkid, mount options: /etc/fstab, udisksctl mount, guestmount, /proc/mounts, fstrim, systemd-mount, defaults