On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:44:47 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > >> When I went to do my F7 upgrade from FC6 at home I got a strange error, > >> the system crapped out on the upgrade complaining about not having a > >> label in /etc/fstab for one of my mount points (/dev/hdb2) even though > >> that mount point is only for backups and isn't an integral part of the > >> system. What's the deal and why is this a requirement now? > > > > See the section on labels in > > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Installer.html > > I think I had a problem labelling the swap partition. > Is this necessary? > And if so, can it be done with swap on? Not with "swapon" but with "mkswap". >From "man mkswap": | -L label | Specify a label, to allow swapon by label. (Only for new style | swap areas.) --Frank Elsner
