Re: swap on second hard drive

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

> 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

UUID is better flexible solution in many cases - why not updating fstab to
have the correct uuid?

ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid

regards