On 03/24/2011 10:49 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm looking into using partition labels on my wheezy boxes. In the course > of doing this, I notice that one can uses a partition label to specify > which partition is to be used for swap in the swapon command and one can > specify a label string to be written onto a partition in mkswap. But, I > can't find a way to read/verify whether there is already a label on an > existing swap partition. Is there a way to read? How? > > TIA > > grep swap /etc/fstab LABEL=swap1 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0 LABEL=swap2 none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/sbin/swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda2 partition 979956 7004 1 /dev/sdb2 partition 979956 7000 1 /sbin/blkid -o value -s LABEL /dev/sd[ab]2 swap1 swap2 If you don't use a specific /dev/??? value, blkid will print all LABEL values. If you want the UUID, use that in place of the LABEL argument to the -s option. You may need to be root to run swapon. You will need to be root to run blkid as it needs to read disk devices. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d8b8778.9050...@symantec.com
