On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:34:06 -0700 (MST), Andreas Dilger wrote in LKML: >Lars writes: >> > Put LABEL=<label set with e2label> in you fstab in place of the device name. >> >> Which is great, for filesystems that support labels. Unfortunately, >> this isn't universally available -- for instance, you cannot mount >> a swap partition by label or uuid, so it is not possible to completely >> isolate yourself from the problems of disk device renumbering. > >There is room for a LABEL and/or UUID in the swap superblock, if you >would want to implement support for this. Despair no more! I've implemented a patch for util-linux-2.11a which adds LABEL support to mkswap(8) and swapon/swapoff(8). - I shrunk the padding field in the new-style swap_header to make room for 16 bytes worth of volume label (same as ext2) - mkswap -L label also sets the volume label - swapon -L label looks for a swap partition with the given label (using a clone of mount(8)'s LABEL/UUID= support code) - swapon/swapoff -a also handles swap fstab entries where the device is specified as LABEL=<label> The patch is available at http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/swap-label/ /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
