Ubuntu doesn't recognize my swap partition

[bobman321123]

I did some work with my swap, and I found out that I had two swap partitions that were each 4gb, and only one was active.
The smart person would have deleted the inactive one, and resized the correct one, but folks, I am not a smart person :P
I deleted both, and followed the ubuntuhelp site for setting up new swap partition, but it didn't work. How do I get Ubuntu to recognise my new 8gb swap partition?

[SlugSlug]

have you edited /etc/fstab to contain new swap?

[bobman321123]

I tried, but I'm not sure I formatted it correctly, because that didn't work.

[mcduck]

I tried, but I'm not sure I formatted it correctly, because that didn't work.

Then could you post your current fstab contents and output from sudo blkid and sudo fdisk -l here?

[SlugSlug]

I tried, but I'm not sure I formatted it correctly, because that didn't work.

can you post output of

cat /etc/fstab


&

sudo blkid

[bobman321123]

cat /ect/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
/dev/sda6       /               ext4    errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=e3c460e6-bdf1-44b6-b166-d60818813186 none            swap    sw              0       0

sudo blkid:

/dev/sda1: UUID="F4B435D2B43597D6" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="7779a225-b8ba-4ed7-8dd7-ad1816c8c106" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda6: LABEL="swap" UUID="dbd88d03-e9fc-4510-b55e-596130b24613" TYPE="swap"

[satanselbow]

/dev/sda6 / ext4 errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=e3c460e6-bdf1-44b6-b166-d60818813186 none swap sw 0 0
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sudo blkid:

/dev/sda1: UUID="F4B435D2B43597D6" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="7779a225-b8ba-4ed7-8dd7-ad1816c8c106" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda6: LABEL="swap" UUID="dbd88d03-e9fc-4510-b55e-596130b24613" TYPE="swap"

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Your fstab entry for swap should look like:

UUID=dbd88d03-e9fc-4510-b55e-596130b24613 none            swap    sw              0       0