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
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>
> 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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