Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]
On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 09:45:28 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it
> >gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from
> >doing so.
> >
>
> I wish to go out of my way, so to speak.
> Can you point me to "the road less traveled"?
> My environment is a laptop dedicated to installing various
> configurations of Jessie. It is extremely annoying that only the
> last installed {and *most likely* to be removed} boots promptly -
> the other installs having problems with finding an invalid UUID. I
> gets worse as I occasionally install a system and its intended swap
> partition to a flash drive - effectively clobbering all installs on
> the laptop.
> TIA
If all you use this laptop for is installing jessie, is it
necessary for you to have any swap available? Would that be
something worth knowing?
Cheers,
David.
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