Ibnstall Eats Swap Partitions On Non-Installation Drives
David Balazic
david.balazic at hermes.si
Tue Nov 11 09:07:31 UTC 2003
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> From: Dan Goodes[SMTP:fedora-list at planetmirror.com]
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> Sent: 11. november 2003 4:57
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> Subject: Re: Ibnstall Eats Swap Partitions On Non-Installation Drives
>
> Bob,
>
> I agree with you - i can't think of any reson you'd *want* your new distro
>
> to use the swap partitions for the old distro... but I also don't see what
>
> the problem is.
>
> o Any and all swap partitions you have defined will be initialised and
> mounted by whatever distro you're running, at boot time anyway... You wont
> be saving data to a swap partition for use later, so formatting them as
> part of the install wont be a problem.
>
swsuspend data is saved in the swap partition, IIRC
> o The fact is that the installer wants to give the system the maximum
> amount of swap space, by using any swap partitions it finds. I don't see
> why that would be a problem. It's perfectly reasonable for you to disable
> access to that swap partition after boot.
>
> o The format for a swap partition is the same accross the board. IMHO, I
> think any changes to the format for linux swap would be made in the
> kernel, and would affect all distros at the same time. So there wont be
> any major problem with one distro formatting another distros swap
> partition.
>
What if I use an old distro, that uses the old format swap ?
> -dan
>
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
> > This is an issue I've brought up before: if you have 2 Linux distros on
> > 2 separate drives, the Fedora Core installer will honor your choice of
> > which drive to install to, but it will format and then use the swap
> > partition on the drive(s) you are not installing to.
> >
> > I have been told there are "legitimate reasons" for destroying the swap
> > partition that belongs to another distro, but no one on the forums has
> > given me a list of those "legitimate reasons". I fail to see any
> > legitimacy to it whatsoever. There is just not a good reason. Anaconda
> > ought to be changed to stop this behaviour, and also it should not
> > attempt to add swap partitions from other distros to /etc/fstab.
> >
> > *If you don't want the swap partitions on other hard drives wiped out
> > when you install Fedora Core, be very careful to review the drive
> > partitioning and check the 'preserve data' option that Disk Druid
> > displays. And then before booting your new system, find some way to edit
>
> > /etc/fstab to prevent those partitions from being mounted.
> >
> >
>
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