Re: How to set label on swap partition

From: Jeff Kinz (jkinz_at_kinz.org)
Date: 03/11/05

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    Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:06:20 -0500
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    On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Pasha R wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > It looks like running Ubuntu LiveCD removed a label from my swap
    > partition, so it is no longer recognized by Fedora as a swap. e2label
    > doesn't want to set label since it is not a ext2/ext3 partition. What is
    > the right way to set label on swap partition?

    I've used the Linux fdisk command that comes w/Fedora successfully in the past.
    If it doesn't work there may be more wrong with the setup of the HD then
    it first appears.

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