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From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: Mounting swap without device name
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RW wrote:

> It wont show up if the the partition is in use. Try a swapoff -a, or
> remove the existing fstab swap entry and reboot.

That was pretty much what I had overlooked. Thanks mate!

Regards,
Chris