2009/2/18 <marcsli...@gmail.com>: > 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.
can you provide the output of: fdisk -l /dev/hda and blkid Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
