"Unable to find swap-space signature"

[Jonathan Hudson]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> I get the error message
> 
> 	Unable to find swap-space signature
> 
> on bootup. This doesn't make sense to me, because
> 
> 1) /etc/fstab contains the line
> 
> /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> 
> and
> 
> 2) 'sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda' returns, in relevant part,
> 
> /dev/hda5           76528       77520      500440+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> Should I worry about the error?
> 

AFAIK, probably not ... If you have suspend/resume to swap enabled, it
gives that message which translates as "This is not a suspend to swap
signature, therefore it's a normal boot".