Major Bug? Edgy 'losing' swap file

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 16:10 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> > So how does this get lost?   And more urgently, how to I tell it to go
> > use the swap partition?
> 
> I did check the fstab file, it does mention a swap file:
> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/hda7
> UUID=df4e8992-2a83-4dfd-bba4-b85a448ee6b1 /               reiserfs
> notail          0       1
> # /dev/hda8
> UUID=45aee921-12ac-4227-9041-01a517b5fb59 /home           reiserfs
> defaults        0       2
> # /dev/hda1
> UUID=5E8471C78471A1E7 /media/drive-c  ntfs-3g
> users,rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
> # /dev/hda5
> UUID=7C7B-03FC  /media/drive-d  vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0
> 1
> # /dev/hda6
> UUID=173e4af7-fb67-445f-adec-8111b3842ea4 none            swap    sw
> 0       0
> /dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> 
> 

I can only suggest
sudo swapon /dev/hda6
that will at least give you the swap back while you/we figure out the
root cause. No need to reinstall in any case.
>