Anaconda Installer: Use of swap space on a multi-drive, multiboot system
Tom Diehl
tdiehl at rogueind.com
Wed Oct 15 19:46:40 UTC 2003
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> If the user specifies an allowable hard drive in a multi-drive machine,
> you should only use the allowed drive as the source of a swap partition.
> Speaking for myself, I don't want the installer to mess with my other
> drives unless I explicitly allow that.
>
> I have not yet been given a single good reason for the installer to
> format a swap partition on another drive, either.
Well let me play devil's advocate and ask what are the downsides to having
it use/format a "linux swap partition" on another drive. Is there some other
potential use for it??
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