Ubuntu – Where did this zram swap come from

12.04zram

I have a zram swap (and a normal one) and I got no idea where it came from:

$ sudo blkid | grep zram
/dev/zram0: UUID="..." TYPE="swap"

$ lsmod | grep zram
zram                   18642  1

$ cat $ cat /etc/fstab
# <file system>         <mount point>   <type>   <options>                             <dump>  <pass>
proc                    /proc           proc     nodev,noexec,nosuid                   0       0
tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs    defaults,noatime,mode=1777            0       0
UUID=...                /               ext4     discard,noatime,errors=remount-ro     0       1
/dev/disk/by-uuid/...   /mnt/data       ext4     defaults,user,exec,errors=remount-ro  0       2
/dev/disk/by-uuid/...   /mnt/media      ext4     defaults,user,errors=remount-ro       0       2
UUID=...                none            swap     sw                                    0       0
  1. Where did come from?
  2. How can I get rid of it, besides blacklisting zram?

This is happening only on one of my systems, both running Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2+.

Best Answer

I forgot to check the files in /usr/share/initramfs-tools and indeed, I found some compcache related files. I then checked, which package installed those files, e.g.

sudo dpkg -S /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf.d/compcache

points to the package casper. Now, I got no idea how this ended up on my system, but purging it and recreating the initrd, gets rid of the zram swap.

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