swap error

Jim Smith jim at oz.net
Sun Jun 24 03:11:09 UTC 2007


W. Scott Lockwood III wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Smith <jim at oz.net>
> Date: Saturday, Jun 23, 2007 6:44 pm
> Subject: Re: swap error
> To: scott at guppylog.com,        "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> Scott Lockwood wrote:
>  On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 13:53 -0700, Jim Smith wrote:
>    
>   
>> # /dev/sda3 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
>> UUID=53682bbd-4fcd-4d8c-81a6-7da4e9dc3ece none swap sw 0 0
>> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
>>     
>>     
>
>   
>> Ok, so, the nice thing about this, is that if you mount swap by UUID,
>>     
>  then you don't really so much care when and if it ever changes the
>  device ID during an upgrade or something, because the UUID doesn't
>  change, where the device name (/dev/sda3) can.
>
>   
>> So, first thing, what happens if you type 'swapon -a'?
>>     
>
>   
>> Second, can you verify that the UUID of that partition is still
>>     
>  53682bbd-4fcd-4d8c-81a6-7da4e9dc3ece ?
>
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>>   
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> I get the following error message:
>
> jim at JimsBook:~$ sudo swapon -a
> Password:
> swapon: cannot stat
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/53682bbd-4fcd-4d8c-81a6-7da4e9dc3ece: No such file or directory
> jim at JimsBook:~$
>
> Could something have changed? Can I just go back to listing it by /dev/sdaX?
>
> Thanbk you
>
> Jim
>
> ---
>
> Yes you can, but verify that it's actually there. It would be better to correct the UUID to whatever is correct.
>
>   
Before I sent the first message I verified it with Qtparted.

Thanks

Jim




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