[feisty] Swap partition listed as ext2 and swap in fstab

The following was during a Feisty Herd CD 5 install

1) Booted to the CD.

2) Formatted both partitions (hda1 and hda5) as ext2 (hda5 is my swap partition). Yes I purposly formatted both this way. Just expected the installer to correctly reformat hda5 as swap.

3) Completed the install letting the installer auto partition so that /dev/hda1 is primary (ext3) and /dev/hda5 is swap.

4) The first reboot hung, switched the console and saw that it was complaining about not being able to mount /dev/hda5 as ext2. (Which must have been correctly reformatted as swap)

5) Typed exit and the boot continued.

6) Edited fstab and saw two entries for /dev/hda5. The first entry was listed as ext2, the second as swap.

7) Remove the /dev/hda5 ext2 entry from fstab, left the /dev/hda5 swap entry as is (both lines specified UUID)

8) Rebooted no swap

9) mkswap /dev/hda5, (just in case)

10) Rebooted no swap

11) changed the UUID to /dev/hda5 for swap line

12) Rebooted swap works

It appears as if the installer noticed both ext2 partitions, therefore it added them to fstab, even though during the install process one of them was converted to swap.

John