Re: partition labels

man mkswap should have the details for setting changing labels

Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> I installed Fedora5, CentOS4.3, and Ubuntu5.10 on my desktop. Fedora
> created the (shared) swap with a label "SWAP-hda6". I'm not sure what
> CentOS did with the label. Ubuntu apparently clobbered the label.
>
> I changed the entry in Fedora's fstab from LABEL=SWAP-hda6 to /dev/hda6,
> and now I have my swap back. One problem persists though. When I boot
> Fedora, I get a message "Unable to access resume device
> (LABEL=SWAP-hda6)" on the screen, after the "Red Hat nash starting"
> message and before the "INIT booting" message. There are no apparent
> messages in DMESG or log/messages.
>
> I tried deleting and recreating the swap partition with qtparted. It has
> a place to specify the label, but it didn't take (still blank). I also
> tried parted and fdisk, but didn't see anywhere that I could update the
> label.
>
> Anyone know how I can create/change the label on a swap (or any) partition?
>
> Alternatively, I've looked for somewhere/something in nash that's
> specifying this label. I figure if I could change it to /dev/hda6 that
> it'd be fine, but I can't seem to find where that is. Anyone know what's
> going on there?
>
> TIA for any assist.
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