diff --git a/migrations/1785094500.sh b/migrations/1785094500.sh
index d858ab63..36c05a89 100644
--- a/migrations/1785094500.sh
+++ b/migrations/1785094500.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,16 @@ if sudo systemctl daemon-reload; then
   # pressure keeps its old size until the next boot.
   zram_used=$(awk '$1 == "/dev/zram0" {print $4}' "$swaps")
 
-  if [[ ${zram_used:-0} == 0 ]] && sudo systemctl restart dev-zram0.swap; then
+  # No row at all means the device is not swap right now, and that covers two
+  # unlike situations. A device that doesn't exist yet is the one worth acting
+  # on: the restart brings it up against the config daemon-reload just picked
+  # up. A device that exists but is swapped off is not, because the restart
+  # resets it first, and reset returns EBUSY for as long as anything still
+  # holds it open. That leaves a "Job failed" from systemd in the migration
+  # output and still ends up asking for the reboot, so go straight there.
+  if [[ -n $zram_used || ! -e $zram_disksize ]] &&
+    [[ ${zram_used:-0} == 0 ]] &&
+    sudo systemctl restart dev-zram0.swap; then
     exit 0
   fi
 fi
diff --git a/test/shell.d/zram-resize-test.sh b/test/shell.d/zram-resize-test.sh
index 589c55aa..a71c3800 100644
--- a/test/shell.d/zram-resize-test.sh
+++ b/test/shell.d/zram-resize-test.sh
@@ -50,7 +50,15 @@ desired_bytes=$((8192 * 1024 * 1024))
 run_migration() {
   local disksize="$1" used="$2" fail_reload="${3:-0}"
 
-  printf '%s' "$disksize" >"$TMPDIR/disksize"
+  # A machine with no zram device has no /sys/block/zram0 at all, so an empty
+  # size means the file is gone rather than blank; the migration tells those
+  # two apart now.
+  if [[ -n $disksize ]]; then
+    printf '%s' "$disksize" >"$TMPDIR/disksize"
+  else
+    rm -f "$TMPDIR/disksize"
+  fi
+
   printf 'Filename\tType\tSize\tUsed\tPriority\n' >"$TMPDIR/swaps"
   [[ -n $used ]] &&
     printf '/dev/zram0 partition 8388604 %s 100\n' "$used" >>"$TMPDIR/swaps"
@@ -101,6 +109,15 @@ run_migration "" ""
 did "systemctl restart dev-zram0.swap" || fail "absent device is created"
 pass "absent device is created"
 
+# A device that exists but is swapped off reads empty too, and there the
+# restart resets it, which fails against whatever still holds it open. Nothing
+# to gain over the reboot that would have resized it anyway.
+run_migration $((4096 * 1024 * 1024)) ""
+did "systemctl restart" && fail "swapped-off device is not restarted"
+did "omarchy-state set reboot-required" || fail "swapped-off device asks for a reboot"
+pass "swapped-off device is not restarted"
+pass "swapped-off device asks for a reboot"
+
 # A failed daemon-reload must fall back to asking for a reboot.
 run_migration $((4096 * 1024 * 1024)) 0 1
 did "systemctl restart" && fail "failed reload does not restart"