Mint 17 Cinnamon 32-BIT SWAP Partition

[MacLindroid]

Hi

BLKID reports:
/dev/sda2: UUID="0e473fe4-3d54-46f7-b424-a4430a4e0a92" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Data" UUID="7384335A7EEF448D" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="79c7928a-5ca1-4016-8665-01f860e79d38" TYPE="ext4"

FSTAB
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=79c7928a-5ca1-4016-8665-01f860e79d38 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda2 during installation
#UUID=8615b44b-faaf-4de3-a011-a6470289e650 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0


/dev/sda2 is my 2GB swap partition. How do I set it active?


And how do I get /dev/sda3 to automount? Settings in Disks are OK but it still does not mount this partition upon boot-up. How should I be going about this?

 

[ponder]

for swap you have a uuid mismatch in fstab, change it to the value reported by blkid

add sda3 to your fstab so it mounts at boot, I don't know the syntax/flags/parameters offhand but google will sort you out there

 

[oldhat]

Not sure if Mint 17 is the same, but with Mint 16 have you tried this?

For the ntfs partition:

Menu - Preferences - Disks

Select the partition you want to affect, click on the 'more actions' icon(looks like 2 little gears), select 'edit mount options' - then check the 'mount at startup' option.

For the swap partition:

Menu - Preferences - Disks

Select the swap partition, then click the 'Activate the swap space' option(little arrow near 'more actions').

 

[MacLindroid]

Thanks, had it sorted out just now

 

[MacLindroid]

This does not work, one need to edit /etc/fstab

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=169107

 

[ponder]

That's what I said.

 

[MacLindroid]

That's what I said.

I was responding to what oldhat had said. Disks options don't work in Mint 16 or 17. I also posted a link to the solution as an example for others. I also found the solution seemingly while you were still posting - it overlapped.

It seems that Mint does not make much use of swap anyhow and one may end up with a slightly slower system and gain little in the RAM department. Mint uses a RAMdrive instead.

 

[oldhat]

I was responding to what oldhat had said. Disks options don't work in Mint 16 or 17.

Oops, my bad - did not spot the mismatch - sorry for the wrong info....good to hear you got it sorted though.