On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:02:52PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > How does one set the UUID of a swap partition to a given value?
> > I have a kludge: put an e2fs file system on the partition, assign the > UUID, then run mkswap on it. It's ugly, but it gets you there. Is > there a better way to do this? Actually, that doesn't even work. mkswap always assigns a new UUID even if there is already a valid one. Grumble. Yes, I can edit /etc/fstab. And there are other places to edit as well. My problem is tied in with this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/66637 There is a workaround at http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_7.04_on_a_ThinkPad_T43#Swap_and_Hibernation_problem. Not good. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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