swap error

[W. Scott Lockwood III]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Smith <jim at oz.net>
Date: Saturday, Jun 23, 2007 6:44 pm
Subject: Re: swap error
To: scott at guppylog.com,        "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>

Scott Lockwood wrote:
 On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 13:53 -0700, Jim Smith wrote:
   
> # /dev/sda3 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
> UUID=53682bbd-4fcd-4d8c-81a6-7da4e9dc3ece none swap sw 0 0
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
>     

> Ok, so, the nice thing about this, is that if you mount swap by UUID,
 then you don't really so much care when and if it ever changes the
 device ID during an upgrade or something, because the UUID doesn't
 change, where the device name (/dev/sda3) can.

> So, first thing, what happens if you type 'swapon -a'?

> Second, can you verify that the UUID of that partition is still
 53682bbd-4fcd-4d8c-81a6-7da4e9dc3ece ?

>   
I get the following error message:

jim at JimsBook:~$ sudo swapon -a
Password:
swapon: cannot stat
/dev/disk/by-uuid/53682bbd-4fcd-4d8c-81a6-7da4e9dc3ece: No such file or directory
jim at JimsBook:~$

Could something have changed? Can I just go back to listing it by /dev/sdaX?

Thanbk you

Jim

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Yes you can, but verify that it's actually there. It would be better to correct the UUID to whatever is correct.

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Regards,
Scott