Re: label swap partition

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Adrian Levi <adrian.levi@gmail.com> writes:

> 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
> 

After the first attempt and reboot, there was no active swap.  I then
redid the mkswap, so the simple answer is yes, it was offline.

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