How do I find out the label of a swap partition?
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Mon Aug 15 02:49:43 UTC 2005
How do I find out the label of a swap partition?
I'm working on bare metal recovery
(http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/index.html). Now
that Fedora uses labels to identify swap partitions as well as file
system partitions, I need to learn what the swap partition label is so
that the bare metal recovery scripts can properly make the swap
partitions.
I can learn the labels of the file system partitions with mount -l,
but that does not help with swap partitions.
I could parse /etc/fstab, but that may not be accurate, e.g. I changed
my fstab to use the device name for swap, but there is a label on the
partition. Also, with the current problem of garbage labels for the
swap partitions, it is hazardous anyway.
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