On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:06:19 +0100 Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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? Don't know. > You slightly misunderstood what I meant. > I ran swapoff before mkswap - > I don't know if that was necessary, but it seemed sensible. I really mis-understood. swapoff must be done before mkswap in order to prevent the use during mkswap. --Frank Elsner
