UUIDs on drives (was Hibernate on battery low)

[Florian Diesch]

Pastor JW <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 05:58:20 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Pastor JW wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 13 August 2008 03:26:51 pm Kennneth P. Turvey wrote:
>> >> I prefer the old method too.  I think the problem is that many people
>> >> use external drives now and the devices will change, so UUIDs solve the
>> >> problem.
>> >>
>> >> Is this the correct reasoning?  I'm just guessing here.  Are there any
>> >> other advantages to using UUIDs that I'm missing?
>> >
>> > I DO wish they would fix their UUID method to allow the OS to find the
>> > swap
>> > partition so hibernate would properly work with it.  Either that or
>> > remove hibernate from the options.  Suspend seems to work and uses very
>> > little battery while suspended.  Maybe swap needs looked at itself as
>> > with the current UUID style of doing things the OS can't find it.
>>
>> Huh?  Mine always has - even after mkswap.
>
> Wait a second here, you are the person who showed me how to set up fstab in 
> order to get swap recognized in the first place,  Worked too.  However, three 
> kernel updates since then and my fstab is no longer what you told me to 
> change it to.  Swap now again has a UUID and is not recognized for 
> hibernation purposes like it was when I first received my machine.  

Hibernate works fine here (Ubuntu 8.04) with the standard fstab  using UUID


   Florian
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