De-activate a swap partition

[jdow]

From: "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>

===8<--- Quoth Anne
I want to reorganise partitions on hdb - combining some, to make fewer, larger 
partitions.  gparted says that I can't do that, because hdb11 is being used 
as a swap partition.  I do have a swap on hda, so could easily manage wihout 
it temporarily.  Is there any way to do that without rebooting?  I removed it 
from fstab and did 'mount -a', but that doesn't solve the problem.  I think 
I'm right in saying that it is not mounted, in a conventional sense, so I 
don't know how to proceed.
===8<--- quoth jdow
apropos swap


Note "swapon" and "swapoff".

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