swapoff Command Examples

Disable devices and files for swapping. Note: path/to/file can either point to a regular file or a swap partition. More information: https://manned.org/swapoff.8.

• Disable a given swap area:

swapoff {{path/to/file}}

• Disable all swap areas in /proc/swaps:

swapoff {{[-a|--all]}}

• Disable a swap partition by its label:

swapoff -L {{label}}