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You are trying to write "vm.swappiness=10" directly to the
swappiness settings.<br>
If that is what you are trying to do, do it like this:<br>
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echo 10 >/proc/sys/vm/swappiness<br>
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I suspect that what you really want to do is write it to a config
file so that it is automatically set every time you boot. In that
case do:<br>
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echo vm.swappiness=10 >/etc/sysctl.d/99-swappiness.conf<br>
sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.d/99-swappiness.conf<br>
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The last line just loads the settings, you could also just reboot.<br>
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Brian Cluff<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/05/2016 11:26 AM, Michael Havens
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I have a small copy n paste txt file for when my
hard drive fails (hopefully in the distant future) so I can get
my new hard drive up and running again as closely similar to the
previous drive as possible.
<div>I made the one command up myself and just discovered it
does not work. That command is:</div>
<div> </div>
<div> # Reduce the swap tendency
<div> cat >> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness <<eof</div>
<div> > vm.swappiness=10</div>
<div> eof</div>
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<div>with the error of:</div>
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<div> cat: write error: Invalid argument</div>
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<div>I have a similar </div>
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<div> sudo cat >> /etc/fstab << eof</div>
<div> /media/bmike1/entertainment/Pictures
/home/bmike1/Pictures none bind 0 0 </div>
<div> eof</div>
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<div>which I do not believe was implemented correctly as when
I inspect 'mount' there does not appear to be the
entertainment directory or pictures directories listed
anywhere. So I suppose it is wrong then....</div>
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