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SWAPLABEL
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (8)
Updated: 2 April 2010
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NAME
swaplabel - Print or change the label / UUID of a swap area
SYNOPSIS
swaplabel
[-L
label]
[-U
UUID]
device
DESCRIPTION
swaplabel
will display or change the label / UUID of a swap partition located on
device
(or regular file).
If the optional arguments
-L
and
-U
are not present,
swaplabel
will simply display the swap area label and UUID of
device.
If an optional argument is present, then
swaplabel
will change the appropriate value of
device.
These values can also be set during swap creation using
mkswap(8).
The
swaplabel
utility allows to change the label or UUID on actively used swap device.
OPTIONS
- -h, --help
-
Print help and exit.
- -L, --label label
-
Specify a new label for
device.
Swap partition labels can be at most 16 characters long. If
label
is longer than 16 characters,
swapinfo
will truncate it and print a warning message.
- -U, --uuid uuid
-
Specify a new UUID for
device.
UUID
must be in the standard 8-4-4-4-12 character format, such as is ouput by
uuidgen(1).
AUTHOR
swaplabel
was written by Jason Borden <jborden@bluehost.com> and Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.
AVAILABILITY
swaplabel
is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
SEE ALSO
mkswap(8),
swapon(8),
uuidgen(1)
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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