Bug#590231: improperly nested partition?

[gi1242+debianbugs at gmail.com]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 03:43:53PM -0400, gi1242+debianbugs at gmail.com wrote:

>> Perhaps grub-probe thinks that my /dev/sdb1 is an Extended partition,
>> rather than swap?
> 
> I got the same set of warnings, and had the same issue (i.e. a partition
> table residing in the mbr of my swap). I just recreated my swap and all
> was fine:
> 
>     swapoff -a
>     mkswap -f /dev/sda2 # WARNING: Make sure the device name is correct.
> 			# -f means "force". Wrong name = lost data.
> 
> You have to use the "-f" flag, otherwise your old boot sector won't be
> erased. On successful completion, you should get no warning message, and
> mkswap should have printed a UUID. Edit your /etc/fstab and replace the
> UUID of the old swap partition with the new one. Then run
> 
>     swapon -a
> 
> and you're good to go.

Oops. If you suspend to disk, then you need to update the swap UUID in

    /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume

as well. Then run

    update-initramfs -k all -u
    update-grub # Probably not necessary

and reboot.

GI

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