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computer not auto swapon ing

Asked by Thinboy00 on 2008-05-27

When I boot my computer, it doesn't automatically swapon (turn on swap). I usually have to manually do sudo swapon /dev/sda5 (my swap partition). I've done some manual repartitioning of my HD using GParted, including increasing the size of my swap significantly. I'm wondering if that was a cause of the problem. Relevent fstab entry:
# /dev/sda5 -- swap
UUID=349dafca-0963-4cc6-8ffb-0ec21ee0da7e none swap sw 0 0

I've edited my fstab manually, but I never touched the /dev/sda5 section, except for the comment (I added the " -- swap"), and even if that could possibly have caused this, it was done well after the issue manifested itself (i.e. just now, because I could).

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Gord Allott
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2008-05-28
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2008-05-28
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2008-05-27
Best Gord Allott (gordallott) said : #1

its likly that in your resizing either the position of your swap changed or the UUID did, you can find out the new UUID by following this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID

Thinboy00 (thinboy00) said : #2

Thanks Gord Allott, that solved my question.