swap-offset

Section: (8) Updated: juni 24, 2006 Local index Up

NAME

s2disk - program to calculate the offset of a swap file in a partition

SYNOPSIS

swap-offset [<swap_file>]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the swap-offset.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

The programs s2disk and s2both can be used to save the state of the whole system to a swap partition or file and power off or suspend your system. After restarting your system it will be put back in the exact system state you left it (this is sometimes called hibernation).

In the case of using a swap file you will have to specify the location of the swap file's header as the offset from the beginning of the partition that contains the swap file. The swap-offset utility can be used to determine this value.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Tim Dijkstra <tim@famdijkstra.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.