swapon.8 (537B)
1 .Dd February 2, 2015 2 .Dt SWAPON 8 3 .Os ubase 4 .Sh NAME 5 .Nm swapon 6 .Nd enable devices and files for paging and swapping 7 .Sh SYNOPSIS 8 .Nm 9 .Op Fl dp 10 .Fl a | Ar device 11 .Sh DESCRIPTION 12 .Nm 13 is used to specify devices on which paging and swapping are to take place. 14 .Sh OPTIONS 15 .Bl -tag -width Ds 16 .It Fl a 17 Make all devices marked as ``swap'' in 18 .Pa /etc/fstab 19 available, except for those with the ``noauto'' option. 20 .It Fl d 21 Discard freed swap pages before they are reused. 22 .It Fl p 23 Set higher priority than the default to the new swap area. 24 .El