Mount labels in fstab?

[Frank Elsner]

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:06:19 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Frank Elsner wrote:
> 
> >> I think I had a problem labelling the swap partition.
> >> Is this necessary?
> >> And if so, can it be done with swap on?
> > 
> > Not with "swapon" but with "mkswap".
> > 
> >>From "man mkswap":
> > 
> > |       -L label
> > |              Specify  a label, to allow swapon by label.  (Only for new
> > |              style swap areas.)
> 
> That is in fact what I did.
> But was it necessary?

Don't know.

> You slightly misunderstood what I meant.
> I ran swapoff before mkswap -
> I don't know if that was necessary, but it seemed sensible.

I really mis-understood. 

swapoff must be done before mkswap in order to prevent the use during mkswap.


--Frank Elsner