On November 7, 2008 08:48, in alt.os.linux.suse, ajp (ajp@nospam.org.uk)
wrote:

> Does this also apply to openSUSE? I don't see my swap partition in
> /etc/mtab either.

You don't mount(8) or mount(2) swap partitions, and thus, swap partitions
don't show up in /etc/mtab.

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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, ajp wrote:-

>Does this also apply to openSUSE?

You mean active swap partitions not showing up in /etc/mtab? No, they
don't, and I don't recall them ever showing up there. Looking at the
earliest version I have still running, which is SuSE 9.1, there is no
swap listed in mtab but, as you can see, it's certainly in use:

davjam@thargon:~> free -t
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 158548 155996 2552 0 7276 19552
-/+ buffers/cache: 129168 29380
Swap: 530108 264780 265328
Total: 688656 420776 267880


>I don't see my swap partition in /etc/mtab
>either.

Why would it be? It's not like its a mounted file system.

>Warning: Ubuntu/Arch Linux Slowdown? Check Your Swap
>http://the.linux-hardcore.com/node/11

That's a problem with the Ubuntu/Arch Linux installer putting an
incorrect UUID for the swap partition into the fstab, and so the swap
partition isn't enabled.


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> incorrect UUID for the swap partition into the fstab, and so the swap
> partition isn't enabled.

(Sorry for the off-topic in aols. FUs to aolu if that's better)

Hmm...I'm running Kubuntu 8.04. It seems to be doing OK in swap, although
/etc/fstab seems "bogus" in this fashion:

root@aces:~# grep -i swap /var/log/messages
Nov 7 04:46:20 aces kernel: [ 3284.596340] Adding 240932k swap on /dev/sdb6.
Priority:-1 extents:1 across:240932k
root@aces:~# grep -i swap /etc/fstab
UUID=6f151619-2ba5-4ce5-9ead-34b88390d8d9 none swap sw 0 0
root@aces:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 385620 378716 6904 0 9048 192624
-/+ buffers/cache: 177044 208576
Swap: 240932 33804 207128
root@aces:~# grep -i swap /etc/mtab
root@aces:~#

Go figure...

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On November 7, 2008 11:15, in alt.os.linux.suse, Harold Stevens
(wookie@aces.localdomain) wrote:

> In >
> [Snip...]
>
>> incorrect UUID for the swap partition into the fstab, and so the swap
>> partition isn't enabled.
>
> (Sorry for the off-topic in aols. FUs to aolu if that's better)
>
> Hmm...I'm running Kubuntu 8.04. It seems to be doing OK in swap, although
> /etc/fstab seems "bogus" in this fashion:
>
> root@aces:~# grep -i swap /var/log/messages
> Nov 7 04:46:20 aces kernel: [ 3284.596340] Adding 240932k swap on
> /dev/sdb6.
> Priority:-1 extents:1 across:240932k
> root@aces:~# grep -i swap /etc/fstab
> UUID=6f151619-2ba5-4ce5-9ead-34b88390d8d9 none swap sw 0 0

Nothing bogus here (unless that UUID is not the UUID for /dev/sdb6).

Remember: fstab(5) (/etc/fstab) is the configuration file for both mount(8)
and swapon(8), while /etc/mtab is the report that mount(8) generates.
mount(8) ignores the swap entries in the fstab(8) (the init scripts don't
ask mount(8) to mount "swap" filesystems), so mount(8) doesn't record swap
in /etc/mtab (because it doesn't mount it). OTOH, swapon(8) needs to know
if and how to activate swap partitions, and it finds this out from
the "swap" entries in fstab(5). swapon(8) doesn't record activated swap
partitions in /etc/mtab.


> root@aces:~# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 385620 378716 6904 0 9048 192624
> -/+ buffers/cache: 177044 208576
> Swap: 240932 33804 207128
> root@aces:~# grep -i swap /etc/mtab

Working as Designed. No trouble found.

> root@aces:~#
>
> Go figure...

Or, read the documentation ;-)

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In Lew Pitcher:

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> Nothing bogus here (unless that UUID is not the UUID for /dev/sdb6).

Ah. Thankyou. (Non)Problem, solved.

> Or, read the documentation ;-)

Thanks again. I'm definitely lazy this today, and this helps.

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Lew Pitcher wrote:

> On November 7, 2008 08:48, in alt.os.linux.suse, ajp (ajp@nospam.org.uk)
> wrote:
>
>> Does this also apply to openSUSE? I don't see my swap partition in
>> /etc/mtab either.
>
> You don't mount(8) or mount(2) swap partitions, and thus, swap partitions
> don't show up in /etc/mtab.
>

That was my understanding but this article implies that they should hence my
confusion.

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