labeling a swap partition

T. Horsnell tsh at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Tue Jul 12 18:26:40 UTC 2005


>I see that officially, e2label can not label a swap partition.  So, I am 
>confused by what I see in my fstab:
>LABEL=SWAP-i2o/hda3     swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>
>I have an Adaptec 2010S ZCR card that likes to play with my mind, so I 
>have found that using labels on my partitions lets me win the game with 
>the ZCR card.
>
>The above entry from the fstab is from a fresh install of FC3.  If 
>e2label doesn't label swap partitions, how did the above entry occur?  
>And, how can I guarantee that my the swap I want used is the one that 
>will be used?

See 'man mkswap'

Cheers,
Terry.




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