swap error

[NoOp]

On 06/23/2007 02:00 PM, 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'm still trying to get my head around UUID's etc., and I found a rather
interesting page/site/wiki that seems to give a pretty good overview of
fstab etc.:

http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Understanding_fstab

Additonal subjects for Feisty are listed here:
http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/Category:Feisty

Disclaimer; I just found the page/site so I've no idea how accurate the
information is.