Frans Pop wrote:
Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote:
Probably putting swap partition in a different location could save me a
bit of trouble. But on the side note, it was Solaris installer that put
swap partition on cylinders 0-258 of the hard drive. So it looked to me
that it knew what it was doing proposing such layout upon install.
It probably does for Solaris.
I think that Solaris may format/use the swap partition in a different way
than linux (and thus Debian) does.
When we'll be able to see the sources of OpenSolaris, it may as well become
quite obvious. But I'd like to repeat: on running Debian system I've put
a script which recreates swap every time Linux boots (btw. Solaris
initializes swap itself, without any action needed).
The sript I've made is in /etc/init.d/regenswap.sh, and is symlinked to
/etc/rcS.d/S09regenswap.sh. This script essentially calls mkswap for every
swap partition listed in /etc/fstab, BEFORE any swapon is called.
This way the swap partition is shared between Linux and Solaris and there
is no need to create an additional partition for linux-style swap only.
So, the problem is that the installer blindly re-uses (and also formats
by default) a swap partition that starts in sector 0.
There already is some code and dialogs in silo-installer that hooks into
partman to warn about this, but that code appears to be unfinished and is
currently not used.
I don't know if it could stop me, though. I'm quite determined sometimes :-)
Friendly,
Wiktor Wandachowicz
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