Label Crap!

[Karl Larsen]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Andrew Parker wrote:
>> On 7/24/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>         It was my fault because info e2label never mentioned you must
>>> have label= but I recall that now is the case. I might try again tomorrow and
>>> change just one and see if I can get it to work. Can I do the same for
>>> swap as well. I guess so but I tried and it said there were a bad
>>> superblock.
>>>
> That is because the swap is not an ext2 or ext3 file system. Try the
> -L option of mkswap instead.
>> Don't forget that labels are used by grub too.
>>
> Labels work great if you use them correctly. But you can mess things
> up if you don't know what you are doing. Then again, there are lots
> of ways you can mess up your computer if you blindly change
> things... The CLI tools do not stop you from shooting yourself in
> the foot. The man pages tell you how to use the tool. You are
> expected to know what happens if you use the tool.
> 
> Mikkel
> 
	This morning I used mkswap -L swap1 /dev/sda2 and it worked. Then I 
changed /etc/fstab to the LABEL=swap1 and rebooted. Happy to say now the 
swap files work with labels. Now to get the same stuff on the other 
things in fstab.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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