label swap device
 

does anyone know how i can label a swap device?

It appears that RHEL and FC3 are capable of labeling a swap partition. What distro are you running? Look at the man pages for mkswap does it have a -L option?

yea FC3, I did some searching on google and I also found the -L option. But on my FC3 box there is no -L option, I suppose what they do is first create an ext2 or ext3 partition and then run:

tune2fs /dev/hdxx -L SWAP-hdxx

then they probably just do:

mkswap /dev/hdxx


I haven't tried this but to me that's the only way I see it happening.