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Subject: Re: Mounting swap without device name
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On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 12:48:24 +0100
Christian Baer wrote:


> Afer reading your post I tried this:
> 
> glabel label -v swap /dev/ada0s3b
> 
> The answer I got was "done". However, there is no new device under 
> /dev/label/ 

It wont show up if the the partition is in use. Try a swapoff -a, or
remove the existing fstab swap entry and reboot.