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Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)?

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 08:18:44PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 20:04:11 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> > sync && sync && sync && swapoff
> > 
> > I couldn't tell why I have sync 3 times, but I know that it's how I've
> > called swapoff since as far back as I can remember.
> 
> Cargo cult.  It was never useful to the best of my knowledge.
> 
Yeah, that is not at all unspurising to me.

It seemed somewhat odd and since I couldn't, even after wracking my
brain, come up with a source or even a vaguely plausible reason for that
particular incantation, I figured it either wasn't doing what I thought
I what was doing or (more likley) it was doing something but essentially
as a side-effect.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

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wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 02:00 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 02:10 +0200
    Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-08-21 02:20 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-08-21 08:50 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-08-21 13:40 +0200
          Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2024-08-21 14:20 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2024-08-21 13:50 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 13:50 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-21 15:40 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 16:00 +0200
    Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 23:20 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-22 14:50 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-22 17:50 +0200
          Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-22 19:30 +0200
            Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-08-22 21:40 +0200
              Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-23 05:40 +0200
            Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-23 04:50 +0200
              Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-23 05:20 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2024-08-23 13:10 +0200
    Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-23 22:20 +0200

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