disk devices in F9 interchanged

Andrew Farris lordmorgul at gmail.com
Tue Apr 1 04:35:49 UTC 2008


Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> The question now becomes why wasn't /dev/sdd5 UUID used to id the swap 
> device during the original installation?  Or do they pertain to swap 
> devices?  I see that blkid /dev/sda5 returns only:
> /dev/sda5: TYPE="swap".

My swaps on all beta installs I did used uuid in /etc/fstab.  Look in 
/dev/disk/by-uuid and see if there is one thats unused in your fstab, thats 
likely your swap.  Don't know why it was different for your install.

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