On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 23:18 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 20:49 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > How do I find out the label of a swap partition? > > > > I'm working on bare metal recovery > > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete-Backup-and-Recovery-HOWTO/index.html). Now > > that Fedora uses labels to identify swap partitions as well as file > > system partitions, I need to learn what the swap partition label is so > > that the bare metal recovery scripts can properly make the swap > > partitions. > > > > I can learn the labels of the file system partitions with mount -l, > > but that does not help with swap partitions. > > > > I could parse /etc/fstab, but that may not be accurate, e.g. I changed > > my fstab to use the device name for swap, but there is a label on the > > partition. Also, with the current problem of garbage labels for the > > swap partitions, it is hazardous anyway. > > > > use e2label. > the man page will help e2label is only likely to help for ext2/ext3 filesystems. The OP is after a way of finding the label on a swap partition. I don't know of any way of doing that other than writing a program to examine the label on each partition. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
