Recently I've been running very short on memory on my computer (hopefully I'll be getting a 250 gig external hdd for Christmas... *crosses fingers*). Because of this, I have had to further shrink my windows partition and add to my linux one. For some reason, I was not allowed to make the linux partition bigger (it's ReiserFS btw), but I do not recall the reason, and there's no going back at this point. In the process of doing this, I had to create an extended partition because I had over the "limit" of partitions and apparently the mbr or something couldn't handle it. To give you an idea of the clutter that is my hard disk, here's a sudo fdisk -l:


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Ok, so to attempt to explain this:

hda1 = Windows Recovery
hda2 = Windows C:\
hda3 = original/main linux (this is root)
hda4 = Extended Partition
hda5 = New linux space
hda6 = Swap

The problem is not the clutter. It's the fact that Ubuntu is not mounting the swap at boot time. I even wrote a script that starts at run time and waits 30 seconds, then sudo swapon /dev/hda6 which works if I run it at any time except boot. So I have to either run this script or go into Gnome Partition editor every time I boot my computer, if I want swap. Any ideas? My google searches weren't turning up anything.

sudo nano /etc/fstab

edit the current swap line, it should be


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although of course the current /dev/hda* it has will be different since you have altered the partitions

Doi! I tried a similar fix a while ago, but I couldn't figure out what to set up as the mount point so I gave up and assumed that I needed to do something else (/dev/hda6 wasn't even an entry in fstab). Well, it's all working now. Thanks Kllrnohj; your linux expertise still amazes me (and I've been using it now for about a year).

Hey, I could have told you that. I'd say you were having a "stupid moment"..

Hey, how was I supposed to know that I could mount a drive to "none." I tried mounting it to other places, but nothing was working. I'm just glad to have the situation resolved. .

Now if only I could get videos on my ipod...

Same. Ah, I still remember a few months ago, when I was trying to manually configure and build Gentoo for the first time...

Well, you could have just modified the line that was there, or read the man page (man fstab)



ffmpeg or mencoder can handle all of your video converting needs

But then again, shame on you for not looking in the wiki first! https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iPodVideo

@Kerm: I seem to recall you completely ignoring all forms of documentation until you screwed the hell out of it, and then came asking for my help....