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122 lines
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.\" $NetBSD: swapon.3,v 1.16 2010/05/31 12:16:20 njoly Exp $
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)swapon.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt SWAPON 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm swapon
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.Nd add a swap device for interleaved paging/swapping
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn swapon "const char *special"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Bf -symbolic
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.\" This interface is available from the compatibility library, libcompat and
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This interface is provided for compatibility only and
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has been obsoleted by
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.Xr swapctl 2 .
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.Ef
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.Pp
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.Fn swapon
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makes the block device
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.Fa special
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available to the system for
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allocation for paging and swapping.
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The names of potentially available devices are known to the system
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and defined at system configuration time.
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The size of the swap area on
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.Fa special
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is calculated at the time the device is first made available
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for swapping.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If an error has occurred, a value of \-1 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Fn swapon
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succeeds unless:
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.Bl -tag -width ENAMETOOLONG
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of a pathname exceeded
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.Brq Dv NAME_MAX
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characters, or an entire path name exceeded
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.Brq Dv PATH_MAX
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characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named device does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The caller is not the super-user.
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.It Bq Er ENOTBLK
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.Fa special
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is not a block device.
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.It Bq Er EBUSY
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The device specified by
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.Fa special
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has already
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been made available for swapping
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The device configured by
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.Fa special
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was not
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configured into the system as a swap device.
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.It Bq Er ENXIO
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The major device number of
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.Fa special
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is out of range (this indicates no device driver exists
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for the associated hardware).
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while opening the swap device.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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.Fa special
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr swapctl 2 ,
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.Xr swapctl 8 ,
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.Xr swapon 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn swapon
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function call appeared in
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.Bx 4.0
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and was removed
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.Nx 1.3
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.Sh BUGS
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This call will be upgraded in future versions of the system.
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