Unable to access resume device (LABEL=SWAP-hdc3) and suspend/resume woes

[Joachim Backes]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 05:36 -0700, Mick Mearns wrote:
>> I always remove the disk labels and edit /etc/fstab to reflect this.
>> #fdisk -l
>>
>> To find out if the disk is labelled and what:
>> #e2label /dev/hda1
>>
>> To blank it out:
>> #e2label /dev/hda1 "" (that's empty quotes.)
> 
> While I see quite a lot of usefulness in not using labels in the fstab
> file.  Or, better still, customising them so your drive is unique from
> anything else that might get connected.  I see no value in entering null
> ones onto the partitions, themselves.
> 
> You can't relabel a swap partition (the one in question, in this thread)
> this way, a different technique is required (e2label is for ext2 or ext3
> partitions).  You probably have to run mkswap, again, unless someone
> knows of another technique to label an already set up swap partition.
> 
> In the past, I'd replaced all fstab label parameters with device names,
> and all was fine, as far as booting was concerned.  I hadn't tried
> resuming a hibernated system set up that way.  You'd probably want to
> specify the resume partition, explicitly, some other way in the kernel
> parameters.
> 

Hi,

known issue. A "mkinitrd ..." solves the problem.

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