On 2010-03-22 19:39, Tom H wrote:
I'd want *proof* (i.e., booting into different distros) that different mkswap invocations generate different UUIDs.I have no idea what proof I can provide except to say that I have been caught by that.I installed a second distribution and I could either not prevent it from running mkswap or forgot to prevent it from doing so and I had, when I rebooted into the first distribution, an error message about swap. And it turned out that the swap UUID had been modified.Expert install or simple install?The partioner is the same for both; and why does it matter anyway since the UUID was modified?
The expert installer lets you skip mkfs if you want to. -- "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." Dwight Eisenhower