On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 04:18:32PM +0100, foo fighter wrote: > <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: > 12.0px;"><div abp="5413"> > <div abp="5429">Hi,</div> > > <div abp="5431"> </div> > > <div abp="5433">I have an issue with Debian multiboot environments which > reuse SWAP-partitions. As a default option, each installation > "formats" the SWAP partition (if SWAP partitions are used) as far > as I understand. This changes the UUID of the SWAP partition(s). In > /etc/fstab, the UUID of the SWAP partitions is referenced as a constant. In > other existing installations, the old UUID of the SWAP partition (overwritten > by the new installation) is no valid or found during boot (systemd > timeout).</div> > > <div abp="5435"> </div> > > <div abp="5437">Shouldn't we preserve a UUID of an existing > SWAP-partition?</div> > > <div abp="5437"><br abp="5438"/> > Distro: Debian stretch</div> > > <div abp="5440"><br abp="5441"/> > Any ideas?</div>
Don't format swap if you want to keep the UUID. Of course reusing swap would be a very bad idea if you ever tried to use suspend to disk. Personally I don't understand wanting more than one system installed, since that's the one I use. What would I use another system for? Experiments and testing I do in chroots or virtual machines. -- Len Sorensen
