Bug#286515: are you sure swap can be labeled?
> You could use something like
>
> LABEL=root / ext2 defaults 0 1
> LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0
> LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 1
>
> in your /etc/fstab, instead of /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1.
Is your fstab example a real life one, or fictional? in the 1st case,
how did you manage to have the swap labeled??
I don't know how can one label a swap partition, if at all.
mkswap/swapon/swapoff don't seem to be providing such an option.
I know I can remove the swap partition and create another
one with one big file on it to hold the swap, but I suspect from the
architectural reasons this will be worse than using a dedicated partition.
I have suffered my share of problems with trying to keep
2.4 and 2.6 going together smoothly on the same machine
(see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=286515 )
and came up with nothing better than going single and
moving the appropriate fstab (sda flavoured for 2.6 and hda for 2.4)
in place. BTW, I have never figured how to force the cdrw
not to work in the ide-scsi emulation mode in 2.6; even with the
ide-cd driver preloaded by /etc/modules and an option
options ide-scsi ignore=hdd
added to the modules.conf (via update-modutils), the scsi
emulation still grabs hdd (somehow pulled in by the sata_sil?)
Regards,
vassilii
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