SWAPLABEL(8) System Administration SWAPLABEL(8)
NAME
swaplabel - print or change the label or UUID of a swap area
SYNOPSIS
swaplabel [-L label] [-U UUID] device
DESCRIPTION
swaplabel will display or change the label or UUID of a swap partition
located on device (or regular file).
If the optional arguments -L and -U are not given, swaplabel will sim-
ply display the current swap-area label and UUID of device.
If an optional argument is present, then swaplabel will change the ap-
propriate value on device. These values can also be set during swap
creation using mkswap(8). The swaplabel utility allows to change the
label or UUID on an actively used swap device.
OPTIONS
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-L, --label label
Specify a new label for the device. Swap partition labels can
be at most 16 characters long. If label is longer than 16 char-
acters, swaplabel will truncate it and print a warning message.
-U, --uuid UUID
Specify a new UUID for the device. The UUID must be in the
standard 8-4-4-4-12 character format, such as is output by uuid-
gen(1).
AUTHOR
swaplabel was written by Jason Borden <jborden@bluehost.com> and Karel
Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.
ENVIRONMENT
LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
enables libblkid debug output.
AVAILABILITY
The swaplabel command is part of the util-linux package and is avail-
able from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
SEE ALSO
uuidgen(1), mkswap(8), swapon(8)
util-linux April 2010 SWAPLABEL(8)