Adrian Levi <adrian.l...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 > It follows. /dev/hda1 looks funny, doesn't it? Like no UUID. How do I fix?
fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 996 8000338+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda2 * 997 1604 4883760 83 Linux /dev/hda3 1605 60801 475499902+ 83 Linux (~)# blkid /dev/hda1: TYPE="ntfs" /dev/hda2: LABEL="rootfilesys" UUID="ba868810-7835-4f45-bfd4-269125a3084d" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/hda3: LABEL="home2filesys" UUID="5e653e2d-c25b-44c6-9331-ba4f8fcb4895" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda1: UUID="de409046-419c-4629-be16-36378a53e1f3" TYPE="swap" /dev/sda2: UUID="a519998d-3306-49eb-8508-a2eb945974ee" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" /dev/sda3: LABEL="homefilesys" UUID="bce0dc2f-8008-44b7-b7ee-1534181751b7" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
