[COLUG] How to read label of a swap partition
Rob Funk
rfunk at funknet.net
Fri Aug 24 19:36:21 EDT 2007
jep200404 wrote:
> How can one read the label of a swap partition?
>
> The -L option to the mkswap, swapon, and swapoff commands,
> allows one to specify a label name, but I don't see any
> commands or options to just read the label of a swap partition.
I don't label my partitions, but the swapon man page's description of -L
seems to imply that "cat /proc/partitions" may help.
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