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on boot I get a message that is really annoying saying that my drive used for swap space is not ready yet or something around those lines.

How can I disable and remove my swap space? I have 12gb of RAM so I think there should not be an issue with not having swap space.

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    You're better off tracking down the cause of the error rather than disabling swap all together. Is your swap partition encrypted? Have you added or removed any disks? This answer may be of use.. though I have included several methods to disable it anyway if you go that route.
    – elmato
    Commented Oct 14, 2015 at 18:56

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Temporary

sudo swapoff -a

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First we must tell the system not to attempt to mount the swap partition on boot. 

sudo scratch-text-editor /etc/fstab

Comment out (place a # before) or delete the line containing your swap partition which will be similar to this.

...
# swap was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=3532d79f-8215-435b-b40e-36136e0e2a41 none swap sw 0 0
...

Then you can delete the swap partition with your partitioner of choice. Below is an example using GParted which can be installed via sudo apt-get install gparted. Note that you will need to run the swapoff command above (or select it from the GParted menu), before you can delete the partition.

GParted

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