Re: label swap partition

2009-02-19 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/19 Marc Auslander marcsli...@optonline.net: Adrian Levi adrian.l...@gmail.com writes: 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 =

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/19/2009 02:10 AM, Adrian Levi wrote: [snip] Why do you want 2 swap partitions? One on sda1 and another on hda1. Spread the pain. Accessing two small swap partitions each thru a different cable gives you better throughput than one huge swap file thru a single cable. -- Ron Johnson,

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-19 Thread Marc Auslander
The last posting asking about previous windows use. Also, blkid thought it was ntfs. This made me guess there was a stale superblock from the previous NTFS use that was confusing linux. So I took the swap partition off line, used dd to zero the beginning of it, and did mkswap again. All is now

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-18 Thread marcslists
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

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-18 Thread Adrian Levi
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

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-18 Thread Marc Auslander
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

label swap partition

2009-02-17 Thread marcslists
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

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-17 Thread Adrian Levi
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