Do I need to reconfigure the swap partition?

Question

There is a Linux Mint. A partition under swap was configured on another physical disk.

On a physical disk with a swap partitions have been changed. Including in several places unallocated areas of about megabyte size appeared. But the section of the swap itself did not move and its scope did not change. The disk is broken in MBR , not GPT.

Do I need to do something before using Linux? Do I need to customize the swap?

Partitioning a disk before changing partitions:

and after:

The swap partition is Other at 7.45 GB.

Contents of the /etc/fstab :

 # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' 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> # / was on /dev/sdb2 during installation UUID=965d0cac-637e-46d3-881e-132caebadb95 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation UUID=71d38886-e09b-4a46-b3c0-02911b34296c none swap sw 0 0

Maxim Timakov Maxim Timakov 1.607 four 14 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-22T00:36:16

I think that is not necessary.
Modern linux distros use UIDs to define partitions and there should be no problems if the partition has not been re-created.
After starting linux just check that swap connects

 dmesg | grep -i swap

If the output is empty, then

find out the name of the correct partition ( sudo fdisk -l )
change the line corresponding to swap in /etc/fstab
give the command sudo mount -a
check that swap is connected

"After launch" - and what happens at startup, if it still does not guess the section?
I think that there will be no problems, but for safety with live check the UUID compliance with your section.
You can see the list, for example, so ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

Do I need to reconfigure the swap partition?

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