Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly [RESOLVED]

[n952162]

Okay, after many hours of investigation and experimentation, I finally
figured this out.

For many years now, I have written my /etc/fstab using the
/dev/disk/by-id directory, because I think it's easier to keep track of
the names there - it's the only way to do it symbolically.

It's always struck me that nobody else does that and I've wondered
why...  now I know...

It turns out, that, now, on my computer, those names aren't set up yet. 
The "missing" devices caused the localmounts service to fail - partially
or fully, randomly - including for the swaps.

When I go through the nasty process of using blkid(8) and specifying the
*UUID=* device name in fstab, then the problem goes away.



On 2020-03-17 13:37, n952162 wrote:
>
> There's new information on this, and new questions...
>
> I discovered that not only are my swaps not mounted, but the other
> filesystems listed in /etc/fstab aren't, either.
>
> These are, apparently, mounted by the localmount RC service.
>
> Its status is *started*.  But if I /restart/ it, then my fstab
> filesystems get mounted.
>
> Question: /etc/init.d/localhost says:
>
> description="Mounts disks and swap according to /etc/fstab."
>
> but I can't see where that script mounts swaps.  Is the description
> obsolete?
>
> Question 2: how can one see the output from the RC "e-trace"
> statements (e.g. ebegin/eend)?
>
> I don't find it in /var/log/*
>
>
> On 2020-03-04 09:09, n952162 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have 3 swap devices and files.  At boot, it seems indeterminate
>> which ones get "mounted" (as swap areas).
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea why they're not all mounted?
>>
>> Here are the swap lines from my fstab:
>>
>> #LABEL=swap        none        swap        sw        0 0
>>
>>  /dev/disk/by-id/ata-TOSHIBA_DT01ACA300_xxxxxxxx-part1    none
>> swap    sw,pri=10    0 0
>>
>> /swap    none    swap    sw,pri=5    0 0
>>
>> /lcl/WDC_WD20EFRX-68EUZN0_WD-yyyyyyyyyy/1/swap        none swap   
>> sw,pri=1    0 0
>>