How to kill the mirrored swap space

[Marco2G]

Hi everyone

I am rearranging my pools. Now I'm trying to get rid of the slices of swap space that are mirrored across my pool disks. I had two mirrors... one of them I managed to clear but for the life of me I can't get swap0.eli to f the f off.

I used swapoff to turn it off and then I created a swap file on an SSD and put that in fstab. Upon reboot, the fstab pointed to swap0.eli once more.

Is this intended behavior?

Regards,

Marco

 

[Marco2G]

What I also don0't quite understand:

swapoff -a removes the mirror as a swap device but I still can't destroy the mirror because the disks are busy...

 

[Marco2G]

Okay, managed to turn off the 2GB reservation in Legacy GUI.

Still the mirror is busy...

 

[Marco2G]

Went ahead and pulled the disks... formated them on windows, stuck em back in and everything is working.

 

[pschatz100]

Just for information... why did you want to remove the swap space?

 

[Marco2G]

Call it a case of OCD. I don't like it when my partitions in a RAID aren't all exactly the same. And anyway, I don't see the logic in having swap on platters when there's an SSD in the system.

 

[danb35]

And anyway, I don't see the logic in having swap on platters

The biggest reason is to account for slight differences in disk size in the event that a replacement disk is smaller than an original. Under normal circumstances, your system shouldn't be using any significant amount of swap in any event.