[SOLVED] SWAP turning off

[Nibiruet]

I recently turned off the SWAP partition to try and see if I could increase its size from an adjacent partition. Finally deciding not to do so I turned it back on.

Since then every time I reboot the system I get an error message and when I finish the boot process and check via GParted the SWAP partition is turned off and I have to manually turn it on.

Any possible fix?

Running Kubuntu v.9.10 x64 with all updates.

[Teunis]

Re: SWAP turning off

Make sure it's properly registered in your /etc/fstab file.
For example mine:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc      /proc      proc  defaults    0    0
# / was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=ff68635b-8c8a-4a84-abf1-3fa6b459de40 /        ext4  relatime,errors=remount-ro 0    1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=4ee5a92d-6ee5-4d42-bfff-9d298486e2e8 none      swap  sw       0    0
/dev/scd0    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0    0
# hardy install
/dev/sda5 /media/Hardy ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0

[kubicle]

Re: SWAP turning off

If you fiddled with the swap partition, the uuid may have changed.

You can get the right uuid for /etc/fstab with:

sudo blkid | grep swap

[Nibiruet]

Re: SWAP turning off

It was in fact the changed UUID which was messing things up. Changing it fixed the problem.

Thanks for both suggestions, appreciate it.

Regards