swsusp: cannot find swap device - or is it an ACPI error?

Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Thu Jun 15 20:42:52 UTC 2006


On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:39, Jaime Davila wrote:
> > Is the path to the swap device hardcoded somewhere in the kernel?
>
> I don't think so. Different people out there (or in here) have
> their swap partitions in different places, and we're all using the
> same kernel, most likely. I think the kernel can either detect
> where the swap partition is based on how it's formatted.

swap partitions are listed in /etc/fstab and used at init-time with 
the command swapon -a


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