{"id":395,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=395"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"delete-unused-swap-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"Delete unused swap space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have multiple BFS volumes on your system, and if you&#8217;ve changed your primary boot volume at some point, you probably have a giant swap file hanging out on the old boot volume(s) that&#8217;s no longer being used. Open a Terminal and type:<\/p>\n<pre>\ncd \/old_boot_volume\/var\nls -l\n<\/pre>\n<p>You should see a file called swap. If you&#8217;re sure this is not your current boot volume (and you don&#8217;t intend to use it as a boot volume again in the near future), type:<\/p>\n<pre>rm swap<\/pre>\n<p>If you use a disk space utility like <a href=\"hhttp:\/\/www.bebits.com\/app\/613\">FreeSpace<\/a>, you&#8217;ll immediately see a massive gain in reclaimed disk space. Because swap space is created automatically at boot time, this is not a dangerous procedure.<br \/>\nThis tip is classified as a Warning because BeOS does nothing to guard against the storage of huge, unnecessary swap files, nor does it warn you about their presence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have multiple BFS volumes on your system, and if you&#8217;ve changed your primary boot volume at some point, you probably have a giant swap file hanging out on the old boot volume(s) that&#8217;s no longer being used. Open a Terminal and type: cd \/old_boot_volume\/var ls -l You should see a file called swap. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}