All my current problems were caused when an error arose while I was
moving data in my /home partition, so that I could create a swap
partition. Since then I have discovered that in the absence of a usable
swap partition the Installer (presumably) created a swapfile in the root
directory and used that instead.
I therefore edited fstab to remove the swapfile entry and added:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID="80d1b878-4739-47be-b64c-edf9e7245a2a swap swap defaults 0 0
where the UUID was obtained from KDE Partition Manager.
After that the machine took forever to boot and seemed to be hanging at
a point where the CPU is being detected!!!!
When it did boot, I got this:
terry@optiplex:~$ free
total used free shared buff/cache
available
Mem: 8081676 1557860 5496332 55260 1331532
6523816
Swap: 0 0 0
This turned out to be a non-problem, because KDE Partition Manager was
lying about the UUID. Running lsblk-f gave me:
sdb1 swap 1 Swap 5d2148b5-ed41-4b5d-abf6-46b1570cde0d
[SWAP]
A totally different UUID!
I live and learn.
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Terry Coles
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