How to LABEL Swap partition
 

I guess most of us have seen the /etc/fstab files. We can found the Label for swap partiton there linke SWAP-hda6. It is the label created at the installation time through disk druid.

But my question is can we manually label the linux swap partition? if yes how. if no why?

BadRAt

labelling is originally an ext2 function. other filesystems do not support it... unless they have been changed to support it too, like reiserfs is i think... you can't label swap.

The standard command for manually labelling partitions is e2label, which doesn't seem to work on my FC5 system on the swap partition.

well as above, the "e2" part of the command name should say it all...

Maybe in the old days, but most modern systems allow you to put a label on a swap partition. I don't know how to put one on an existing swap partition, but if you look at the man page for mkswap, you will see a -L option (if your system supports swap partition labeling). So, just recreate your swap partition with the mkswap command and use the -L option...

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