[Bug 839118] Re: swap not mounted with mountall unless listed last in /etc/fstab

[Brian Vaughan]

Attached is a "bad" version of /etc/fstab, in which swap is not enabled.
Note that the only change is that the line for mounting the swap
partition (and the associated comments) were moved away from the end of
fstab. Here also are the results of the same commands above, after
booting with the "bad" version of fstab.

brian at brian-desktop:~$ swapon -s
Filename				Type		Size	Used	Priority
brian at brian-desktop:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8177364    2124676    6052688          0     251704     684220
-/+ buffers/cache:    1188752    6988612
Swap:            0          0          0
brian at brian-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep sdb1
[    2.325388]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 < sdb5 > sdb3 sdb4
brian at brian-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep swap


** Attachment added: "fstab.badswap"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/+bug/839118/+attachment/2533004/+files/fstab.badswap

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Title:
  swap not mounted with mountall unless listed last in /etc/fstab

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  A swap partition is not mounted on boot, and is not mounted with
  mountall, despite being listed in /etc/fstab, unless the line
  describing the swap partition is the last line in /etc/fstab. This can
  be seen by executing 'mountall -v' with the line describing the swap
  partition at any other point in /etc/fstab: the last line of output
  will appear similar to 'local 4/4 remote 0/0 virtual 12/12 swap 0/0'.

  There is a description of the bug, and the workaround:
  http://askubuntu.com/questions/38533/system-not-mounting-swap-partition

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