I maintain the Linux Documentation Project HOWTO on bare metal restoration, http://www.charlescurley.com/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO.html. As part of that, I maintain some scripts that detect hard drive setup and in turn build other scripts to reconstruct hard drive setup. I see that a fresh installation of FC3 will use a label to mount a swap partition. I can examine an ext[2|3]fs partition with dumpe2fs to determine its label, if any, or given a mounted partition, go from a device to its label. However, swap partitions do not show up in mount (for very good reason). If I know I only have one swap partition, then scanning fstab gives me the label. However, if I have multiple swap partitions, scanning fstab is not enough. The labels for FC3 seem to be of the form "SWAP-hda5" for /dev/hda5, but if I assume that form in my scripts, I am dependent on that form continuing into the future. I am also dependent on system builders other than Anaconda using that form, a dubious proposition. Is there any tool that lets me read the label from any partition at all, or from swap partitions in specific? Thank you. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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