[Bug 839118] Re: swap not mounted with mountall unless listed last in /etc/fstab

[Brian Vaughan]

Attached is the "good" version of /etc/fstab that I am currently using,
and here also are the output of some commands to indicate the status of
swap on my system.

I will attach the "bad" version and the results of the same commands
when I can safely reboot my machine. (It tends to get stuck during the
shutdown process, requiring CTRL-ALT-DEL or manually cycling the power.
This is an unrelated problem as far as I know.)

brian at brian-desktop:~$ swapon -s
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/dev/sdb1                               partition       10485756        0       -1
brian at brian-desktop:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8177364    1474892    6702472          0      64740     768664
-/+ buffers/cache:     641488    7535876
Swap:     10485756          0   10485756
brian at brian-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep sdb1
[    2.320759]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 > sdb3 sdb4
[   21.479866] Adding 10485756k swap on /dev/sdb1.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:10485756k 


** Attachment added: ""Good" fstab that enables swap"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/839118/+attachment/2528571/+files/fstab.goodswap

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Title:
  swap not mounted with mountall unless listed last in /etc/fstab

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  A swap partition is not mounted on boot, and is not mounted with
  mountall, despite being listed in /etc/fstab, unless the line
  describing the swap partition is the last line in /etc/fstab. This can
  be seen by executing 'mountall -v' with the line describing the swap
  partition at any other point in /etc/fstab: the last line of output
  will appear similar to 'local 4/4 remote 0/0 virtual 12/12 swap 0/0'.

  There is a description of the bug, and the workaround:
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/38533/system-not-mounting-swap-partition

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