Mount labels in fstab?
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Wed Jun 6 13:06:19 UTC 2007
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?
You slightly misunderstood what I meant.
I ran swapoff before mkswap -
I don't know if that was necessary, but it seemed sensible.
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