[GLLUG] Damn Installers!

[Richard Houser]

In the rare situations where I multiboot, I sometimes use a system resume
partition per distro and a larger shared one for tmpfs, etc.  As long as you
can boot without that swap, you can still force the the mount via the device
name.
On Jun 28, 2011 10:45 PM, "Chick Tower" <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just learned something today. If you install more than one version or
> distro of Linux to a PC, and the last installation insists upon
> formatting the partitions you set up, you might have to modify your
> fstab files in the other installations. I tried to use the same swap
> partition with a new installation of CrunchBang Linux, which it insisted
> it format. Since it was already a swap partition, I saw no harm in
> that. However, when I booted the other Linux, it ran extremely slowly,
> and I finally noticed that it had no swap. The original Linux
> installation's fstab specified the partitions by UUID, and formatting
> the swap partition changed its UUID, so I was painfully inconvenienced
> the next time I tried doing much on the original Linux installation
> since that PC has only 128MB of RAM.
> --
>
> Chick
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