Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

[Charles Kroeger <ckrogrr@frankensteinface.com>]

On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:00:03 +0100
Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:

> multiple Linuxes present. Is there a way to 
> tell the installer to use an existing SWAP partition?

I have such a system, and 'any' swap partition cut out of any other (Linux)
partition on your computer will be used by whatever version of Linux may be running
at the time,  if the or these swap partitions appear in /proc/swaps .

/dev/sdb5                               partition	17407996	0	-1
/dev/sda2                               partition	12701692         0      -2

Of the four versions of Debian on my computer they all use these two swap partitions
as one. It can be argued that I have too much swap space and that would be true
but, there is so much space available these days the change isn't urgent.

It is my view that one doesn't need to make but one swap partition for all the
other versions of Linux on your computer.
 
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CK