Adrian Levi <adrian.l...@gmail.com> writes: > 2009/2/18 <marcsli...@gmail.com>: > > I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to > > labels in fstab. > > > > I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by > > doing > > mkswap -L rootswap /dev/hda1 (the current dev name of my swap partition) > > > > but swapon -L rootswap says it can't find the label. > > > > i notice, possibly irrelevant, that cfdisk is seeing the new labels on > > my ext3 partitions, but not the label of the swap partition. > > > > any hints about what I might be doing wrong? > > You did a swapoff /dev/hda1 first? > > Adrian >
After the first attempt and reboot, there was no active swap. I then redid the mkswap, so the simple answer is yes, it was offline. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
