partition labels

[Eric "Shubes"]

Thanks, Gerard - just what I needed. I ran swapoff, mkswap, swapon, and 
everything's hunky dorey now.

 From what I'm seeing, though, you can only specify a label when 
creating a partition. Anyone know how to change it in place? (I know 
that with enough spare room, one could copy the contents to a temp 
partition, recreate the target with a label, then copy the contents back)

Gerard Snitselaar wrote:
> 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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-Eric 'shubes'
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