Swap partition problem after resize

**karusho** · 12-24-2007, 02:15 AM

After I thought I had finished setting up Ubuntu just perfect, I decided to wipe Vista

from my Sony VAIO VGN-NR160E

I moved my Ubuntu partition and expanded it to fill up the void left by Vista, and did the same with my Data partition. I now had 1.5GB left over, so I expanded my swap from 512MB to 2GB.

Then, swap partition stopped working properly.

I swapped it on, I rebooted, it was off.

So I snooped around in /etc/fstab and found that the UUID hadn't been updated.

Updated UUID for swap partition.

I hibernated, and... the swap partition went kersploot.
GParted said that the filesystem for it was Unknown
and swapon refused to mount it until I used mkswap, which meant changing the UUID in fstab again.

Then, I hibernated again, and... kersploot.

Can anyone help?

**sobeit** · 12-24-2007, 04:15 AM

format the partition as swap
Under gparted, umount /dev/hdb3
Format it as "linux-swap"
Then, again in gparted, right click on the swap partition and choose swapon

possible solution was taken from here since I do not use ubuntu.

**Bartender** · 12-25-2007, 07:45 AM

Hibernate? Turn it off entirely. Not sure that'll make any dif but makes no sense to hibernate.

12-24-2007, 02:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
karusho TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 1,217 OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista SP1, Ubuntu 8.04 My System	Swap partition problem after resize After I thought I had finished setting up Ubuntu just perfect, I decided to wipe Vista from my Sony VAIO VGN-NR160E I moved my Ubuntu partition and expanded it to fill up the void left by Vista, and did the same with my Data partition. I now had 1.5GB left over, so I expanded my swap from 512MB to 2GB. Then, swap partition stopped working properly. I swapped it on, I rebooted, it was off. So I snooped around in /etc/fstab and found that the UUID hadn't been updated. Updated UUID for swap partition. I hibernated, and... the swap partition went kersploot. GParted said that the filesystem for it was Unknown and swapon refused to mount it until I used mkswap, which meant changing the UUID in fstab again. Then, I hibernated again, and... kersploot. Can anyone help? __________________ Laptop Specs: Sony VAIO VGN-NR160E dual-booting Vista Ultimate SP1 and Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron"

12-24-2007, 04:15 AM	#2 (permalink)
sobeit TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NEAR Posts: 7,433 OS: windows/linux	Re: Swap partition problem after resize format the partition as swap Under gparted, umount /dev/hdb3 Format it as "linux-swap" Then, again in gparted, right click on the swap partition and choose swapon possible solution was taken from here since I do not use ubuntu. __________________ there's been global warming since the ice age

12-25-2007, 07:45 AM	#3 (permalink)
Bartender Mentally divergent Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Chehalis, WA, USA Posts: 1,285 OS: W2K, Ubuntu 8.04	Re: Swap partition problem after resize Hibernate? Turn it off entirely. Not sure that'll make any dif but makes no sense to hibernate.