Lost Swap Partition

Try to recreate your swap partition as following steps:

Step 1. Format /dev/sda6 to be a valid swap mkswap /dev/sda6

Step 2. Activate the swap by swapon /dev/sda6

Step 3. Additionally modify /etc/fstab to make swap start after every boot. The swap line will probably be already there. You will just need to update UUID received as output of step 1.

For example in your case REMOVE these lines (IF you don't want Encrypted swap partition):

#UUID=6ea517a3-a80a-4acb-bea9-4efea2a71acf none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0

And add this line instead at the end with NEW UUID that you get in step 1:

UUID=0c9f1cb4-a539-4ca4-8eb2-712d0efc3d10 none            swap    sw              0       0

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IF you want to keep your Encrypted swap partition do the following steps:

First things first, we need to know where your swap file is located on your hard drive. dmesg can help here (or you could also check /etc/fstab)

So in your case you can see the swap is on /dev/sda6. Next thing to do is ensure the system is fully up to date, turn swap off so we can work with the partition and install the necessary files. Ensure to replace /dev/sda6 with the partition you got from dmesg (or /etc/fstab) in the step above:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo swapoff /dev/sda6
sudo apt-get install lvm2 cryptsetup

Next up, load the module and verify its running.

$ sudo modprobe dm-crypt

You should see something like below

$ sudo lsmod | egrep 'aes|dm_crypt'
dm_crypt               12928  0 
aes_i586                8124  1 
aes_generic            27484  1 aes_i586

Now we clear the partition of existing data by filling it with random data. This has two purposes, first so that any old unencrypted data is overwritten and second so that your encrypted data does not stand out if your drive is analysed. What I mean by this is, if you have 750 meg of unused swap and only 250 meg used, then 3/4 of your drive will contain no data at all, just zeros. This makes the encrypted data stick out like a sore thumb. If you fill the drive with random data, the encrypted data just ‘blends in’

$ sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda6 bs=1M

Again, replace /dev/sda6 with the partition you got from dmesg or fstab. This command will take a while (about 10 mins or so) and should produce output similar to this:

dd: writing `/dev/sda6': Input/output error
1028+0 records in
1027+0 records out
1077510144 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 642.306 s, 1.7 MB/s

Then you need to tell crypttab to set up the partition as encrypted swap, again ensure to change /dev/sda6 to your partition:

sudo echo cryptoswap /dev/sda6 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-cbc-essiv:sha256,size=256,hash=sha256,swap >> /etc/crypttab

Next, edit the /etc/fstab file and search for the line with ‘swap’ in it. Comment that line out by inserting a # character at the beginning of the line, then insert the following line and save the file:

/dev/mapper/cryptoswap none swap sw 0 0

That is now your system set up with encrypted swap. Reboot your system for the changes to be picked up and the encrypted swap to be started. To ensure that the swap partition is encrypted after you boot you can check dmesg again, it should specifically mention cryptoswap:

dmesg | grep swap
 [   73.063397] Adding 979924k swap on /dev/mapper/cryptoswap.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:979924k

If you notice a delay during boot time, or see a message such as ‘waiting for swap’ then move the mouse around a bit. It means the system is low on entropy to generate random data for initialization of the encryption. It should only take a second or two.

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