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I just clean-installed Ubuntu (12.04.4 lts) for my first time about a week ago and have been having problems with swap from the get-go. Initially, I was receiving the error message "The disk drive for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is not ready yet or not present" during boot. In Gparted, I could see my hard drive as well as a bunch of empty space that was supposed to be my swap. After mucking about on the internet and such, I tried the answer to this person's question, which is really just a summary of this post.

I went through the steps and had to re-do them a bit because there were some missing steps in the comments, but I at least got the error message to go away (hooray) although I still face the problem in the title. At every boot I need to "swapon" the swap partition in Gparted (I'm sure there's another way, but it's all I know for now). What do?

I'll post the outputs of any commands you want as long as you show me how to paste the results here properly :D

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You can edit /etc/fstab and add swap

/dev/partition none swap defaults 0 0

If this don't work you can put in /etc/rc.local command

swapon /dev/partition

Maybe this solve your problem

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  • Could you elaborate a little bit? Just because really haven't used terminals and the like very much before. Like if I've understood correctly, you're saying that I should use "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" and just write /dev/partition none swap defaults 0 0 at the bottom? (I'll be replace "partition" with "sda2" for my case as it's the name of my swap drive) – Eerikki Mar 02 '14 at 07:11
  • Yes. My English is very bad. Try to solve your problem on this way https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04 – 2707974 Mar 02 '14 at 12:04
  • That's okay, I did what you said above and it worked! Thanks a bunch! – Eerikki Mar 02 '14 at 19:36