Jorge Fábregas wrote: > On 01/05/2012 06:14 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> mkswap -L SWAP-sda3 /dev/sda3 > > I didn't know you could create a label within the mkswap command. I > always used "e2label" as in: > > e2label /dev/sda2 myswap > > Try it with e2label just in case. Also, are you able to activate the > swap using just the block device as reference? Can't do that: e2label is *only* for an ext2/3/4 partition, and won't work with swap (or at least it didn't when I tried it last year). mkswap -L <label> /dev/sdx mark - -- random .sig, honest! A horned and tusked purple thing went racing along the ridge to my right pursued by a hairless orange-skinned creature with long claws and a forked tail. Both were wailing in different keys. I nodded. It was just one damned thing after another. - from _Trumps of Doom_ by Roger Zelazny