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 -- 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