Help, my swap is broken!

[Knapp]

sudo blkid

/dev/sda5: UUID="79B2-0C4E" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda6: UUID="4f9b82bd-3d8c-46c8-950a-4a8acc86df87" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda7: UUID="6d02b2c5-6b57-44ed-89f0-141afc6ca8de" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda8: TYPE="swap" UUID="873ef0c4-54d9-4027-a967-aab7767a42ed"
/dev/sdb5: TYPE="swap" UUID="8a648b08-c93c-4663-952e-5e0f6a701fae"
/dev/sdb6: UUID="63815ed4-0e70-4ae7-af4d-710e1928f0ec" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb7: UUID="33ed9119-54e9-4da4-b408-8079f5d697e0" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb8: LABEL="KDE4System"
UUID="53a1da00-f1ad-4379-b044-303ca4ad68f9" SEC_TYPE="ext2"
TYPE="ext3"


On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Knapp wrote:
>> douglas at frog:~/Documents/MMORPG/Python/GroupSpaceAdventure/Client$
>> swapon -a swapon: cannot canonicalize
>> /dev/disk/by-uuid/578be745-0d4a-413c-8de2-48e0aa6cd074: No such file
>> or directory
>
> And here is another thought: You should use swapon as root, not as
> douglas. But that is probably not the reason for your error message
> because it says "operation not permitted" if I try the same here.
>
>
> Nils

Ah, I forgot the sudo. It did nothing without.
and to make you happier:
douglas at frog:~/Desktop/Panda3d/Client$ sudo swapon -a
swapon: cannot canonicalize
/dev/disk/by-uuid/578be745-0d4a-413c-8de2-48e0aa6cd074: No such file
or directory
swapon: cannot stat
/dev/disk/by-uuid/578be745-0d4a-413c-8de2-48e0aa6cd074: No such file
or directory
swapon: cannot canonicalize
/dev/disk/by-uuid/c09b82be-5b95-4195-88f2-b84b0a4f2627: No such file
or directory
swapon: cannot stat
/dev/disk/by-uuid/c09b82be-5b95-4195-88f2-b84b0a4f2627: No such file
or directory

:-)



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Douglas E Knapp

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