Quoting Andrew Pam ([email protected]):

> Note that if you do this the drive names can still change when you plug
> the other two disks back in.

Correction:  Merely plugging in discs changes _no_ /dev/sdX device
assignments.  Changing what's plugged in at boot time often does.

> That's why you should use UUIDs and not worry about what names they
> are assigned.

_Or_ don't change what mass storage devices are plugged in at boot time,
and be prepared to occasionally update /etc/fstab if major kernel
upgrades change the enumeration order.

(Some us consider the cure of UUIDs to be in a spirited competition with
the disease.)

> With Ubuntu 18.04 it should default to using a swapfile and no swap
> partition.  If you're having trouble with the partitioning, the simplest
> solution is to tell the installer to use the entire 1TB drive in the
> default configuration that it recommends rather than doing it manually.

Personally, I always do partitioning and initial mkfs operations using
whatever live-CD distribution I most have confidence in (currently
Siduction), and then separately let the distro installer use the
filesystems and disc layout thus created.  But horses for courses.


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