Re: label swap partition
Adrian Levi <adrian.levi@gmail.com> writes:
> 2009/2/18 <marcslists@gmail.com>:
> > 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.
>
> can you provide the output of:
>
> fdisk -l /dev/hda
> and
> blkid
>
> Adrian
>
It follows. /dev/hda1 looks funny, doesn't it? Like no UUID. How do
I fix?
fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 996 8000338+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 997 1604 4883760 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1605 60801 475499902+ 83 Linux
(~)# blkid
/dev/hda1: TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/hda2: LABEL="rootfilesys" UUID="ba868810-7835-4f45-bfd4-269125a3084d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/hda3: LABEL="home2filesys" UUID="5e653e2d-c25b-44c6-9331-ba4f8fcb4895" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda1: UUID="de409046-419c-4629-be16-36378a53e1f3" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda2: UUID="a519998d-3306-49eb-8508-a2eb945974ee" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="homefilesys" UUID="bce0dc2f-8008-44b7-b7ee-1534181751b7" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
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