How to set label on swap partition

Jeff Kinz jkinz at kinz.org
Fri Mar 11 17:06:20 UTC 2005


On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Pasha R wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like running Ubuntu LiveCD removed a label from my swap
> partition, so it is no longer recognized by Fedora as a swap. e2label
> doesn't want to set label since it is not a ext2/ext3 partition. What is
> the right way to set label on swap partition?

I've used the Linux fdisk command that comes w/Fedora successfully in the past.
If it doesn't work there may be more wrong with the setup of the HD then
it first appears.

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