[SGVLUG] Swap labels

Jeff Keys jskeys at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 19:04:57 PDT 2005


man mkswap in Fedora Core 3 has the -L option, and says that it "Only for 
new style swap areas."

On 9/18/05, John E. Kreznar <jek at ininx.com> wrote:
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> Dustin <laurence at alice.caltech.edu> writes:
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> > ... it might be interesting to hear from anyone else who checked or
> > wants to check on whether this is standard functionality or just
> > something that got hacked into Debian somehow.
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> When you first brought this up (a week or two ago? -- and thanks to
> you and your correspondent at the time, David Lawyer maybe, for
> awakening at least me to this useful functionality), I looked it up in
> /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.11/Documentation and found only that it
> may not work with devfs. But it's documented in man mount(8), and
> there's no hint there that it's specific to Debian.
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> - --
> John E. Kreznar jek at ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13
> Operating a computer with a GUI is like driving a car with
> an animated cartoon in place of the clear front window.
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