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diff --git a/disk-utils/swaplabel.8 b/disk-utils/swaplabel.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d96d507 --- /dev/null +++ b/disk-utils/swaplabel.8 @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +.\" Copyright 2010 Jason Borden <jborden@bluehost.com> +.\" +.\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License. +.\" +.TH SWAPLABEL 8 "April 2010" "util-linux" "System Administration" +.SH NAME +swaplabel \- print or change the label or UUID of a swap area +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B swaplabel +.RB [ \-L +.IR label ] +.RB [ \-U +.IR UUID ] +.I device +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B swaplabel +will display or change the label or UUID of a swap partition located on +.I device +(or regular file). +.PP +If the optional arguments +.B \-L +and +.B \-U +are not given, +.B swaplabel +will simply display the current swap-area label and UUID of +.IR device . +.PP +If an optional argument is present, then +.B swaplabel +will change the appropriate value on +.IR device . +These values can also be set during swap creation using +.BR mkswap (8). +The +.B swaplabel +utility allows to change the label or UUID on an actively used swap device. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +.BR \-h , " \-\-help" +Display help text and exit. +.TP +.BR \-L , " \-\-label " \fIlabel\fR +Specify a new \fIlabel\fR for the device. +Swap partition labels can be at most 16 characters long. If +.I label +is longer than 16 characters, +.B swaplabel +will truncate it and print a warning message. +.TP +.BR \-U , " \-\-uuid " \fIUUID\fR +Specify a new \fIUUID\fR for the device. +The \fI UUID\fR +must be in the standard 8-4-4-4-12 character format, such as is output by +.BR uuidgen (1). +.PP +.SH AUTHOR +.B swaplabel +was written by Jason Borden <jborden@bluehost.com> and Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>. +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.IP LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all +enables libblkid debug output. +.SH AVAILABILITY +The swaplabel command is part of the util-linux package and is available from +https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR uuidgen (1), +.BR mkswap (8), +.BR swapon (8) |