Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap
Package: debian-installer is there a reason why the installer defaults to format given swap partition? I now know that you can opt out to format swap, but i don't understand that formatting swap is default! I had several Linux on same PC and after installing aditional debian, the other Linux didn't find their swap anymore because UUID has changed. I fixed it but i thought: "Debian, that should be a no go, formatting given swap" So i'm curious for the reason for this behaviour! Regards John Landmesser
Bug#905793: sharing swap is bad idea
> I had several Linux on same PC and after installing aditional debian, > the other Linux didn't find their swap anymore because UUID has changed. Sharing swap leads to data loss if any kind of hibernate (incl. hybrid suspend) is involved. Thus, it really don't want to allow that by default. If you know the danger, you can do so manually. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ So a Hungarian gypsy mountainman, lumberjack by day job, ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ brigand by, uhm, hobby, invented a dish: goulash on potato ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ pancakes. Then the Polish couldn't decide which of his ⠈⠳⣄ adjectives to use for the dish's name.
Bug#905793: Why does the Installer formats given swap
On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 07:37:15PM +0200, John Landmesser wrote: > Package: debian-installer > > > is there a reason why the installer defaults to format given swap partition? > > I now know that you can opt out to format swap, but i don't understand that > formatting swap is default! > > I had several Linux on same PC and after installing aditional debian, the > other Linux didn't find their swap anymore because UUID has changed. > > I fixed it but i thought: "Debian, that should be a no go, formatting given > swap" > > So i'm curious for the reason for this behaviour! Well 99.9% of installs don't have another linux on the system, so any swap partition would be a new one that you just created, so you want it formatted, or it wouldn't be used. Maybe it would be possible to make it default to not format a swap partition if that partition already exists and isn't being created from scratch. The installer at least has the option to not format it for the extremely unusual case of wanting to reuse an existing swap partition. -- Len Sorensen
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Version: 1.68
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team
Changed-By: Holger Wansing
Description:
anna - anna's not nearly apt, but for the Debian installer, it will do
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anna (1.68) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Team upload
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[ Cyril Brulebois ]
* Update Vcs-{Browser,Git} to point to salsa (alioth's replacement).
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[ Updated translations ]
* Hebrew (he.po) by Yaron Shahrabani
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