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. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland