Delete a file that was created with fallocate

Question

I started to create a swapfile. I used this command:

sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile

Then, I decided that I want to make the swapfile in a different path, so I used the command again with the right path and activated the new swap file.

How can I delete the first file that I created?

Personally, I prefer a logical volume (or partition) based paging space, or none at all. A useful example of fallocate in any case. — John Mahowald, Feb 19 '18 at 14:21

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '18 at 14:55

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fallocate just creates a file, it does nothing specific to swap, so you can simply rm /swapfile.

If you had turned it into a swapfile with mkswap then swapon you can simply use swapoff /swapfile to stop your machine using it as swap.

answered Feb 18 '18 at 14:55

Adam Gibbins

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