slow booting after installation of another Linux

Bob Jonkman bjonkman-w5ExpX8uLjYAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 12 22:39:17 UTC 2012


On 12-10-08 03:04 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Bob Jonkman wrote: 
> | Yes, I assign a label, then use that in the fstabs for both
> | installations (by manually editing fstab after installation).  Great for
> | sharing home partitions across installations as well.
> 
> I didn't know that you could label swap files.  Apparently mkswap can
> label "new style" swap partitions (new is not very new any more: old
> style swap areas were limited to 128MiB on x86 so they had to go).

I don't know about swap *files*, I apply the label to the partition
before it's formatted as swap. Usually during the OS install from CD,
but I've also created swap partitions (or LVs) after installation.  Both
parted and gparted label names work in fstab.



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