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14.3. Removing Swap Space

Sometimes it can be prudent to reduce swap space after installation. For example, say you downgraded the amount of RAM in your system from 1 GB to 512 MB, but there is 2 GB of swap space still assigned. It might be advantageous to reduce the amount of swap space to 1 GB, since the larger 2 GB could be wasting disk space.
You have three options: remove an entire LVM2 logical volume used for swap, remove a swap file, or reduce swap space on an existing LVM2 logical volume.

14.3.1. Reducing Swap on an LVM2 Logical Volume

To reduce an LVM2 swap logical volume (assuming /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 is the volume you want to reduce):
  1. Disable swapping for the associated logical volume:
    swapoff -v /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
  2. Reduce the LVM2 logical volume by 512 MB:
    lvreduce /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 -L -512M
  3. Format the new swap space:
    mkswap /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
  4. Enable the extended logical volume:
    swapon -v /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01
To test if the swap's logical volume size was successfully reduced, use cat /proc/swaps or free to inspect the swap space.

 
 
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