SWAPLABEL(8) System Administration SWAPLABEL(8)

swaplabel - print or change the label or UUID of a swap area

swaplabel [-L label] [-U UUID] device

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.

-h, --help

Display help text and exit.

-V, --version

Print version 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).

LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all

enables libblkid debug output.

swaplabel was written by Jason Borden <jborden@bluehost.com> and Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.

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

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

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/.

2025-01-13 util-linux 2.40.4