[GLLUG] Damn Installers!
Bryan Laur
bjlaur at mtu.edu
Wed Jun 29 17:40:12 EDT 2011
This is why I am not a fan of UUID's by default
They seem to cause more trouble than they solve.
On 6/28/2011 10:45 PM, Chick Tower 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.
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