8. System administration commands (usually only for root)

SWAPLABEL

Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: 2021-06-02
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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 simply 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 changing 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 characters, 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 uuidgen(1).

ENVIRONMENT

LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all

: enables libblkid debug output.

AUTHORS

swaplabel was written by and

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker at <https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues>.

AVAILABILITY

The swaplabel command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

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