On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:05:43PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 15:07 -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:02:05PM +0200, Pasha R wrote:
> > > It appears that mkswap does have a -L option, though undocumented in man
> > > page. Using it fixed my problem.
> > >
> > > BTW, how do you set label in fdisk? I tried that, but could not find an
> > > appropriate option.
> >
> > from the "m" command ("m" for "help" :-) )
> > "t" change a partition's system id
> >
> > The type for linux swap is "82"
>
> That's setting the partition type in the partition table, which is not
> the same as the filesystem label, which lives "inside" the filesystem on
> each partition.
<Hesitantly>
ummm - but a swap partition has no "filesystem" per se. Just a chunk of
addressable bytes, nicht?
I have to assume that Pasha is talking about the partition type ID
since you (might, probably?) have to know what the type of filesystem,
if any, a partition contains, before you can "read it" to retrieve any
label?
</Hesitantly>
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