partition issues

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:45:51 +0300, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com>
>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:56:54 +0300, Gary J. Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> ># swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
>> >UUID=968b13e5-f73d-49b7-b125-2b14b62fd1a0 none            swap    sw
>> >            0       0
>>
>> If you deleted the swap, than comment that line out and even if you
>> should create a new swap, you still would need to replace the UUID.
>>
>> I don't know if it affects the startup performance, if fstab
>> contains a missing swap, at least missing partitions that contain
>> "normal" file systems could slow down startup or even completely
>> cause the startup to fail, if they are missing (I don't know what a
>> default Ubuntu does use as the default setting, if a partition
>> should be missing).
>>
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>
>The uuid's do not appear to match.
>
>UUID=968b13e5-f73d-49b7-b125-2b14b62fd1a0  per fstab
>
>d2296617-1e6a-4381-bff7-c2979f878b30 per gparted
>
>In any case the problem existed before i added swap

If you don't comment out the bad UUID it makes no difference if you
should have a swap with another (new) UUID or no swap at all. Comment
it out, if you don't use a swap at all, or correct the UUID to use a
new swap. The test if the startup performance issue still remains.