partition labels

[Nathan England]

tune2fs -L "label name:

On Thursday 30 March 2006 15:03, Gerard Snitselaar wrote:
> Also the filesystem specific mkfs manpages (for example mkfs.ext3)
> should state how to label the partition.
>
> 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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