Re: Mount labels in fstab?

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Frank Elsner wrote:

>> 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.)

That is in fact what I did.
But was it necessary?

You slightly misunderstood what I meant.
I ran swapoff before mkswap -
I don't know if that was necessary, but it seemed sensible.

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