This one time, at band camp, Joost Kraaijeveld said: > Hi Bob, > > Thanks: it works as described. > > Just 1 other question: can I label my swap partition? > > If I try e2label /dev/sda5 /my_name it returns: > > e2label: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdb5 > Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock. e2label, perhaps unsurprisingly, given it's name, only handles ext2 and ext3 filesystems. See http://www.sgvlug.org/pipermail/sgvlug/2005-September/000874.html for a discussion of swap labels. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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