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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
       appropriate 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>.

AVAILABILITY
       The  swaplabel  command is part of the util-linux package and is avail‐
       able from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO
       mkswap(8), swapon(8), uuidgen(1)

util-linux			  April 2010			  SWAPLABEL(8)
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