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There are two partitions in my Ubuntu 12.04 setup that don't mount and are "unknown"; /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda5:

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and the properties dialogue:

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Is one supposed to be my SWAP partition? I have 8 GB of ram (so maybe sda7 was swap). Should I format the partitions to a certain format and somehow mark it as SWAP? Should I merge the two partitions (and the 7mb unallocated space) together?

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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  • Yep, sda7 seems to be your swap partition... but what's in sda5? It haves almost 15 GB!
    – Xerz
    Jun 9, 2012 at 11:14
  • @espectalll123 I turns out they are both swap, and are encrypted and not mounting. This must have happened when I upgraded to 12.04 and I encrypted my home drive.
    – Devi710
    Jun 9, 2012 at 11:46

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there is no swap, otherwise gparted would have found it.

You can start gparted as root and mark a partition as swap.

After that you should modify manually fstab

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutomaticallyMountPartitions

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  • Thanks for the response gianni. I tried to format the partition as swap while running gparted as root, but got an error: dl.dropbox.com/u/1483214/Photos/partitions-03.png I'll try again from a live session.
    – Devi710
    Jun 9, 2012 at 11:33
  • Maybe you can remove the swap from fstab, reboot and then try again
    – gianni
    Jun 9, 2012 at 12:59
  • It took some work, but I got it all fixed.
    – Devi710
    Jun 9, 2012 at 18:34
  • From a live usb boot I deleted sda5, added all the unallocated space to my Linux partition (sda6), formatted sda7 to Linux-Swap and then added it to fstab. Because of all the partitioning my grub was broken and I couldn't boot into any OS. But I fixed this easily with Boot-Reapir - help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair
    – Devi710
    Jun 9, 2012 at 18:40

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