Disabling Swap Activation Message
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From: Tech Geek on 4 Mar 2010 22:20 I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from the init scripts on my console: Activating swap...Done ..................... ...................... Activating swapfile sawp...Done After doing a find it seems that these messages are spitted out by scripts mountall.sh and checkroot.sh files in /etc/init.d/ directory. My question is what is the best way to disable these messages and the associated function with those messages? Should I just comment out the relevant swap portition in those two init files? Here are contents of my fstab file: # less /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /etc/fstab (END) Here is my drive structure: debian:/etc/init.d# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x9c9a78cd Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1824 14651248+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1825 5472 29302560 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1825 3648 14651248+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 3649 5472 14651248+ 83 Linux debian:/etc/init.d# Thanks
From: Ron Johnson on 4 Mar 2010 22:40 On 2010-03-04 21:12, Tech Geek wrote: > I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap > partition. I recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. > > Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from > the init scripts on my console: > > Activating swap...Done > .................... > ..................... > Activating swapfile sawp...Done > > After doing a find it seems that these messages are spitted out by > scripts mountall.sh and checkroot.sh files in /etc/init.d/ directory. > > My question is what is the best way to disable these messages and the > associated function with those messages? > > Should I just comment out the relevant swap portition in those two init > files? > You could, but is there any real harm in the messages? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms." Mike Ditka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4B907BA2.4080303(a)cox.net
From: Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta on 4 Mar 2010 22:40 On 04/03/10 22:42, Tech Geek wrote: > I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap > partition. I recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. Wow, hard work. > Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from > the init scripts on my console: > Activating swap...Done > .................... > ..................... > Activating swapfile sawp...Done Ignore it. > After doing a find it seems that these messages are spitted out by > scripts mountall.sh and checkroot.sh files in /etc/init.d/ directory. Yes, and unmountall.sh > My question is what is the best way to disable these messages and the > associated function with those messages? If the free command show zeros (0) on swap line ignore this VERBOSE messages. > Should I just comment out the relevant swap portition in those two > init files? Instead view this file /lib/init/vars.sh, you will understand that: 1) You can disable verbose output with "quiet" option in the kernel boot line. 2) You can disable swap (although it exists) with "noswap" option in the kernel boot line. You can test this options editing boot line in GRUB menu on boot, type "e" change the line and CTRL+X to boot. > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- "You don't know where your shadow will fall", Somebody.- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta<olafrv(a)gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal Web Page -- http://olafrv.com -- info(a)olafrv.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4B907D50.5060901(a)gmail.com
From: Andrew Reid on 4 Mar 2010 23:40 On Thursday 04 March 2010 22:12:59 Tech Geek wrote: > I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I > recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. > > Now when I boot to my base system, I still see following messages from the > init scripts on my console: > > Activating swap...Done > .................... > ..................... > Activating swapfile sawp...Done > > After doing a find it seems that these messages are spitted out by scripts > mountall.sh and checkroot.sh files in /etc/init.d/ directory. > > My question is what is the best way to disable these messages and the > associated function with those messages? > > Should I just comment out the relevant swap portition in those two init > files? Seems cleaner to me to either boot with a "noswap" kernel option, or edit /lib/init/vars.sh to always set NOSWAP to "yes". Both mountall and checkroot seem to check that variable. Of course, I haven't actually tried it, so it might not even work. If it does, my personal preference would be to change the default boot options in the bootloader config -- I use grub, and it's already customized to have the right "root=" line, so adding "noswap" to the "kopt" line would be natural, and would be preserved automatically across kernel updates. -- A. -- Andrew Reid / reidac(a)bellatlantic.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201003042234.03224.reidac(a)bellatlantic.net
From: Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta on 5 Mar 2010 00:10 On 04/03/10 23:04, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010 22:12:59 Tech Geek wrote: > >> I installed Debian Lenny on my PC (/dev/hda1) without any swap partition. I >> recompiled my kernel to boot without using an initrd. >> >> After doing a find it seems that these messages are spitted out by scripts >> mountall.sh and checkroot.sh files in /etc/init.d/ directory. >> >> My question is what is the best way to disable these messages and the >> associated function with those messages? >> >> Should I just comment out the relevant swap portition in those two init >> files? >> > Seems cleaner to me to either boot with a "noswap" kernel option, > or edit /lib/init/vars.sh to always set NOSWAP to "yes". Both > mountall and checkroot seem to check that variable. > > Yes > Of course, I haven't actually tried it, so it might not even work. > It works. > If it does, my personal preference would be to change the default > boot options in the bootloader config -- I use grub, and it's already > customized to have the right "root=" line, so adding "noswap" to the > "kopt" line would be natural, and would be preserved automatically > across kernel updates. > Right. > -- A. > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- "You don't know where your shadow will fall", Somebody.- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta<olafrv(a)gmail.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Personal Web Page -- http://olafrv.com -- info(a)olafrv.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4B9090EE.5070300(a)gmail.com
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