swap partition won't mount

[Alex Janssen]

Alex Janssen said the following on 03/04/2007 03:04 PM:
> Happiness is such a fleeting thing!
> I put the computer into hibernation then rebooted.  It did not revive 
> from hibernation, but rebooted.  The error "can not find swap signature" 
> or there abouts, came up during the reboot and free shows not swap 
> available.  Running mkswap /dev/hdc6, then swapon -a gets it mounted and 
> operational for this session.
> I have 768MB RAM and the swap file is only 586MB.  Could this be the 
> problem? Could the hibernate process have overwritten the swap signature?
>
> Alex
>
>   
<embarassment>
I forgot to update fstab after rerunning mkswap.  Apparently mkswap also 
creates the link in /dev/disk/by-uuid.  I did not think it did that the 
first time I ran it, but it did this last time.

Alex

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