Re: Mount labels in fstab?

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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