Hi Anthony,
live-installer (the installer we developed primarily for LMDE) doesn't
use UUIDs yet. It refers to partitions by name (for instance
/dev/sda1). This has pros and cons compared to using UUIDs, and as
external USB devices are becoming extremely common we're planning to
switch to UUIDs in the near future.
You underlined a very interesting problem here. I agree with Raphael,
I'd much prefer to see our installers not format swap partitions
rather than modifying the system configuration of other operating
systems. Users of multiple systems who share the same swap area and
hibernate often are probably already aware of the limitations involved
in doing this, and they would be impacted not only during the
installation of a system but on a regular basis as they continue to
use both systems.
Our installer allows the user to choose the swap partition and whether
to format it or not. I wasn't aware of the problem and I'm sure most
of our users aren't either... so we'll probably add a warning when the
user chooses to format the swap, or we might design the UI differently
to work around this issue.
Regards,
Clement Lefebvre
Linux Mint