[CoLoCo] I'm confused about how the disk works

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

OK, so I was confused - somehow the use of UUIDs had escaped my
attention - what was commented out was the partition, which was just
used as documentation. Here, for example, is the swap info from fstab:

# /dev/sda5
UUID=050c15b9-eb30-4db9-a65c-3ed07b559efb none            swap    sw
0       0

However, when booting up I still don't have any swap enabled. Executing
swapon /dev/sda5 enables without any issues, so I'm not sure why it
doesn't autostart.

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 06:02 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 10/25/07, Kenneth D. Weinert <kenw at quarter-flash.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here's where the problem comes in - in top I see that I have no swap,
> > but looking at fdisk shows a swap partition and if I type
> > swapon /dev/sda5 then suddenly I have a bunch of swap available.
> >
> > In fstab both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda5 are commented out.
> >
> 
> I can't begin to guess how you reached this state of affairs, but you
> will need to uncomment a line in fstab to have your swap activated
> automatically at boot time. Otherwise, you will have no swap until you
> issue a swapon command. In all Ubuntu installs that I have done, swap
> is handled and registered in fstab automatically.
> 
> -- 
> Collins Richey
>      If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
>      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
> 
-- 
Ken Weinert
http://quarter-flash.com

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