Bad suggestion, Adam. I don't know that the debian installer acts that way. The issue is that the devuan installer is deciding on its own to re-format an existing swap partition.
On 03/21/2016 05:17 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:29:47PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: >> On today's install device, I had a pre-existing linux with a swap >> partition on the disk, and the partitioner insisted on re-formatting it. >> This is BAD. It changes the UUID of the swap partition, which messes up >> the other operating systems on the device, because the recent 'best >> practice' has been to identify partitions in fstab by UUID. >> >> It significantly slows the boot of those other linuxes, and they lose >> their swap, and the sysadmin has to manually fix the fstab. > > As your problem is not specific in any way to Devuan, I suggest reporting it > upstream, ie, in Debian. > -- hkp://keys.gnupg.net CA45 09B5 5351 7C11 A9D1 7286 0036 9E45 1595 8BC0 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
