Elliott Martin wrote:
and with a journalised file system the swap partition is actually extremely useful, it helps avoid data loss when writing to hard drive.Hello, I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push me off mandrake linux :P -Elliott
from my quick looks at other ditro's they all require a swap partition as well, no way around it with journalised file systems.
