swap partition won't mount

[Alex Janssen]

Hello to all,

Some time back I remember noticing that my swap partition was not being 
mounted anymore.  This started after some update had occured.  I've read 
the mkswap and swapon manual pages,  checked that the UUID link in 
/dev/disk/by-uuid is also in fstab and pointing to the proper partition, 
/dev/hdc6 in my case.

Output of uname -a:
  Ubuntu Linux di1100u 2.6.17-11-386 #2 Thu Feb 1 19:50:13 UTC 2007 i686 
GNU/Linux.

The output of swapon -a:
    swapon: /dev/disk/by-uuid/5cd2d5dc-09ba-426b-95d7-796a5bb462f7: 
Invalid argument

Output of fdisk shows the partition is type 0x82:
  $ sudo fdisk -l

  Disk /dev/hdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/hdc1   *           1        1926    15470563+   7  HPFS/NTFS
  /dev/hdc2            1927        6005    32764567+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
  /dev/hdc3            6006        8045    16386300    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
  /dev/hdc4            8046        9729    13526730    5  Extended
  /dev/hdc5   *        8046        9656    12940326   83  Linux
  /dev/hdc6            9657        9729      586341   82  Linux swap / 
Solaris

Contents of /etc/fstab:
  # /dev/hdc6 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
  UUID=5cd2d5dc-09ba-426b-95d7-796a5bb462f7 none swap sw 0 0

Directory listing of /dev/disk/by-uuid:
   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2007-03-04 11:21 
5cd2d5dc-09ba-426b-95d7-796a5bb462f7 -> ../../hdc6

If I run mkswap -c /dev/hdc6 it assigns a new UUID which I use to make a 
link by that name pointing to ../../hdc6 and put in fstab.  Then running 
swapon -a mounts it properly, but on a subsequent reboot, 
/etc/rcS.d/S35mountall.sh fails to automatically mount it and I cannot 
manually mount it, either.

I have not found anything specifically about this situation on the wiki 
pages, yet.

Has anyone had this problem and fixed it or just know how to fix it?

Thanks for your help,
Alex

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