Stuffed up Swap

[Snowhog]

Re: Stuffed up Swap

UUIDs

[jankushka]

Re: Stuffed up Swap

see this, as well.
for most of us, uuids are not that useful.
to most of us, uuids are only a nuisance.
the majority of users should not be bothered with uuids, actually.
right now they are because things do not work all that well.
but the majority of users should not know of the existence of these things.
*ubuntu is set to work with uuids, though.
and we'll have to live with it.
so, yeah, you could change all your uuids to their /dev counterparts.
but there will be places you don't know of where uuids are used.
so...
i'd try and find out what the actual uuid for this one partition is and stuff it in fstab.

hth
cheers

[SheeEttin]

Re: Stuffed up Swap

Well, the UUID for a drive is (theoretically) unique to each drive, meaning it'll never mount the wrong drive.
However, I had to remove all UUIDs from my fstab (and /bootgrub/menu.lst) to get to boot. (This was when I upgraded to Edgy, I think.)

I'd still try the findfs that jankushka posted, just to make sure.

[dibl]

Re: Stuffed up Swap

I didn't have a long history with Linux when they started with the UUID thing in Edgy, so I've just accommodated myself to it. With the dynamic assignment of ID's in USB bus-connected devices, I can see why they thought UUID might be a way to handle the challenge. One command that is very helpful to keep things sorted correctly (especially if you have multiple drives and OS's) is

blkid

This will show the UUID number for each /dev/ device -- very nice way to make sure /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst are all in sync with your real hardware. Sometimes it gets complicated ...

dibl@gutsy:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="f222f97f-278f-4db5-8642-513294f30193" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="a2c1f50a-bd30-4910-825b-7ef65c7788fe" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: UUID="adf641ca-f64e-4311-bc30-86bfcdcb669c" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="b1869c3e-b13a-4772-914c-bcc6db718967" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="a6c2ba7b-8492-4746-92af-5182dcb4daab" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="1ddd0144-0875-4667-9f98-e90a23f58ff3" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdc2: UUID="710efad8-9f97-4bcd-8f57-8f8cc1facc2f" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdc3: UUID="f1912a56-2e5c-45ce-b91b-3ebbe69e20f4" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="cffddf89-57f3-40ab-a97f-40bb1ea45f16" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdd2: UUID="94d4d572-3581-491b-90dc-e5f619c65908" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdd3: UUID="9b7658da-59e1-4b2b-a4b9-fa3ee11b68cf" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sde1: UUID="d182b7c3-298c-49b3-ac66-b378033b815c" TYPE="reiserfs"
/dev/sdf1: UUID="A8FC3435FC33FC5E" LABEL="DIBLZSTUFF" TYPE="ntfs"

[mistrynitesh]

Re: Stuffed up Swap

Thank you all!
Guess one never stops learning in Linux-world