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# Linux swapoff Command [ Linux Command Manual](#) The Linux swapoff command is used to disable the system swap area. swapoff is actually a symbolic link to swapon and can be used to disable the system's swap area. ### Syntax swapoff **Parameters:** * -a Disable all devices set as swap in the /etc/fstab file * -h Help information * -V Version information ### Examples Display partition information: # sfdisk -l //Display partition informationDisk /dev/sda: 1305 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System/dev/sda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux/dev/sda2 13 1304 1292 10377990 8e Linux LVM /dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 EmptyDisk /dev/sdb: 652 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track sfdisk: ERROR: sector 0 does not have an msdos signature /dev/sdb: unrecognized partition No partitions found Disable swap partition. # swapoff /dev/sda2 // Disable swap partition [ Linux Command Manual](#)