How to set label on swap partition (SOLVED)

[Jeff Kinz]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:02:05PM +0200, Pasha R wrote:
> It appears that mkswap does have a -L option, though undocumented in man
> page. Using it fixed my problem.
> 
> BTW, how do you set label in fdisk? I tried that, but could not find an
> appropriate option.

from the "m" command ("m" for "help" :-) )
   "t"   change a partition's system id

The type for linux swap is "82"
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