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Re: swap on second hard drive



On 17/05/16 18:02, Felix Miata wrote:
> Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-05-17 16:41 (UTC+0100):
> 
>> I recently re-formatted and re-partitioned a second disk that I use for
>> experimenting with various distributions. A consequence is that previous
>> UUIDs have disappeared into the bit bucket but, during booting of my
>> main system a script somewhere is trying to use the swap partition that
>> used to exist on the second disk.
> 
>> This is not a major problem, as the system boots after a 90 second delay
>> for a start job that is never going to start and a dependency failure
>> message is output, but I would like to find and fix the problem. Can
>> anyone offer a pointer to a likely source?
> 
> That was happening here last summer:
> https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=936964
> 
> Maybe all that's needed to fix it is initrd rebuilding.
> 
> Mounting by UUID is an optional default. Mounting life is simpler here,
> because I don't use UUID mounting on any of my hundreds of multiboot
> installations. Most of my mounts are by LABEL, strings I as a fallible
> human choose and can remember, according to usage, disk name and/or
> hostname.

Thanks for the very useful pointers. I don't know who is the culprit,
but fstab has an entry for swap with a UUID that is not consistent with
the actual UUID for the swap partition. I'm going with your advice and
switch to using labels.

Thanks again.

Peter HB

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