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1.1       root        1: .TH SWAPON 2 "27 July 1983"
                      2: .UC 4
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: swapon \- add a swap device for interleaved paging/swapping
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .nf
                      7: .B swapon(special)
                      8: .B char *special;
                      9: .fi
                     10: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     11: .I Swapon
                     12: makes the block device 
                     13: .I special 
                     14: available to the system for
                     15: allocation for paging and swapping.  The names of potentially
                     16: available devices are known to the system and defined at system
                     17: configuration time.  The size of the swap area on 
                     18: .I special 
                     19: is calculated at the time the device is first made available
                     20: for swapping.
                     21: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     22: swapon(8), config(8)
                     23: .SH BUGS
                     24: There is no way to stop swapping on a disk so that the pack may be
                     25: dismounted.
                     26: .PP
                     27: This call will be upgraded in future versions of the system.

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