Anaconda Installer: Use of swap space on a multi-drive, multiboot system

[Robert L Cochran]

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.

Bob


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:31, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> 
>>When the anaconda installer is presented with a system that has more 
>>than one physical hard drive installed, and the other drive has a linux 
>>system on it, it tries to snatch the swap space that belongs to the 
>>other system.
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>I don't think anaconda should be doing that. Comments?
> 
> 
> This comes up occasionally.  It originally was due to interactions with
> allowing you to run fdisk interactively during the install (wow, that
> was a bad idea ;)   
> 
> Of course, even if we don't switch to formatting all swap partitions,
> we'll still end up using them all.  Well, unless someone has an idea of
> how to say "use this swap partition" that fits in well with the rest of
> the interface.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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