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Ubuntu gives me an error on boot saying it can't find my Swap partition.

I ran free -m and this was the result. It says I don't have any swap memory. I can't post any images but these were the results.

MEM: total(3692) used(2357) free(1334) shared (248) buffers(84) cached(908)

-/+ buffers/cache: used(1364) free(2357)

Swap: used(0) free(0) shared(0)

I tried to see if a swap partition exists on my hard drive. It does. I have allotted 60 GB to Ubuntu.

1st sub-partition device: /dev/sda5

partition type: Linux

contents: Ext4 (version 1.0) — Mounted at Filesystem Root

2nd sub partition device: /dev/sda6

partition type: Linux Swap

contents: unknown

Can anyone help?

user85933
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Please check out my answer here. There are steps to check which swap partitions are in use and instructions on making the OS use them.

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Marcin Kaminski
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  • Running "grep swap /etc/fstab" give me

    swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation

    #UUID=60449995-e48e-4b1d-ad7b-25269c4aca95 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0

    I added /dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0 to /etc/fstab. On running swapon -a, I get swapon: /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: stat failed: No such file or directory swapon: /dev/sda6: open failed: Permission denied

    On running sudo swapon -a, I get swapon: /dev/mapper/cryptswap1: stat failed: No such file or directory swapon: /dev/sda6: read swap header failed: Invalid argument

    Can you help?

     – user85933 Jan 20 '15 at 13:24