Re: label swap partition
2009/2/18 <marcslists@gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to
> labels in fstab.
>
> I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by doing
> mkswap -L rootswap /dev/hda1 (the current dev name of my swap partition)
>
> but swapon -L rootswap says it can't find the label.
>
> i notice, possibly irrelevant, that cfdisk is seeing the new labels on
> my ext3 partitions, but not the label of the swap partition.
>
> any hints about what I might be doing wrong?
You did a swapoff /dev/hda1 first?
Adrian
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