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UUIDs and SWAP

Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 74.220.13.196] on September 11, 2008 03:46 PM
When you install a new OS it will reformat the swap space(s) and give them new UUIDs. Once done the old OS no longer has swap space because it refers to an obsolete UUID!
After debugging this I stopped letting installs use UUID in /etc/fstab

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