How to safely remove swap partition in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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How to safely remove swap partition in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

SOLUTION 已验证 - 已更新 2019年八月21日17:51 -

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环境

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Swap

问题

Is there a way to stop active swap disks, so that they can move their load to other swap disks?
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.
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).

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# 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

决议

Swap space in Linux is used when the amount of physical memory (RAM) is full. If the system needs more memory resources and the RAM is full, inactive pages in memory are moved to the swap space. For more details refer Swap Space .

As per the swapon output mentioned in issue section, other partitions have same partition size and priorities set. The swap partitions can simply get off by using following command and their load will get split.

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# swapoff /dev/sda1

Check the load by using swapon -s. Some of load will get split in memory and other in swap space. When it will restore and use the other swap partition, remove this partition /dev/sda1 using fdisk.

After doing this wait for some time to get it restore and use the other partition and repeat the same steps for device /dev/sda2 and remove the entries from /etc/fstab.

After memory is swapped out, it will not return to the physical memory unless it is being used again. The pages can exist in both the places swap and main memory.

After swapoff is issued, it will take some time to move the memory from swap partition to other partition and physical memory. Ensure enough memory is available otherwise the OOM (Out of memory) killer will be invoked.