Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?
Jude DaShiell composed on 2020-01-08 14:35 (UTC-0500):
> With sufficient memory above 1GB probably a swap file could be created
> by an installer
For an installation that /requires/ swap, due to a limited RAM target, simply to
proceed, an extra swap from the target freespace could be created in advance, and
do not use applied to the original.
It seems trivial to deal with the forced swap reformatting if planned for in
advance. Simply maintain all fstabs mounting by human memorable LABEL. Then with
the new Debian installation do as David Wright wrote 2020-01-06 10:39 -0600:
swapoff, give swap its old LABEL back, edit fstab to mount by LABEL, swapon.
All native filesystems here mounted via fstab are mounted by LABEL, since more
than a decade ago, same as most root= kernel cmdlines in custom.cfg for Grub.
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