Re: swap on second hard drive

[deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com>]

Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

> On 18/05/16 22:02, deloptes wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Because I prefer an identifier that I can remember. :-)

Haha, that's fair enough. It took me about 1h to reverse the setup to paper,
that I have done few years ago on one server with 12disks
Not only uuid, but crypt and lvm on top. I finally draw a map with this.
I suggest not relaying on memory anyway ;-)

regards