Hello,
I've just recently taken over a new linux box and ran into a problem today. The system load was up to 70 at times with user/system process load very low when doing an sar. Idle time was up into the 90's.
Anyway ... I found that the swap the system was running was sized at 300Megs on a machine that has 1 gig of memory.

After rebooting, the load leveled off and I was able to spend some time looking around.
I then went to create a new swap file using <mkswap /dev/sdb3 1000000>
Unfortunately, this took my /home directory to 100%.

I'd now like to "undo" what I've done. Is this possible?
When I try it now, I get an invalid arguement response.
I've tried swapoff /dev/sdb3.

Please tell me this is possible to undo. Uugh!

Thanks.

Chris

If this command never really finished (volume is currently at 100%), did I actually wipe out the contents of my /home directory.?
Is there any way to get this back?
Right now, when I execute < ls -l >, I get the following:
EXT3_fs error (device sd(8,19)): exp3_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: inode out of bounds - offset=0, inode=2, rec_len=12, name_len=1
total 0

oh ... lastly, if I definitly cannot get anything back, what do I have to do to get a /home directory put back on /dev/sdb3 ?
Like I said, right now, I can't even do an ls -l .