Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/6/2017 3:43 PM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 11:56:01 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 1/6/2017 10:48 AM, David Wright wrote: (Of course the necessity might be avoided with pre-seeding about which I know little; I've probably installed Debian fewer times than the OP has

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/6/2017 1:16 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Richard Owlett composed on 2017-01-06 11:56 (UTC-0600): David Wright wrote: It might save a lot of typing to use LABEL rather than UUID. IIRC the partitioning phase of installer does not allow specifying a label for the swap partition. In context

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Thanks folk. You've explained what has been happening to me on my multi-boot system, and given a solution in 1 session. Keith Bainbridge 0447667468 keithrbaugro...@gmail.com Sent from my APad On 7 Jan 2017 08:48, "David Wright" wrote: > On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 11:56:01 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/6/2017 10:48 AM, David Wright wrote: > >(Of course the necessity might be avoided with pre-seeding > >about which I know little; I've probably installed Debian > >fewer times than the OP has installed jessie in a day.) > > I

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2017-01-06 11:56 (UTC-0600): David Wright wrote: It might save a lot of typing to use LABEL rather than UUID. IIRC the partitioning phase of installer does not allow specifying a label for the swap partition. In context of $SUBJECT, it would seem opportunity

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Felix Miata
Darac Marjal composed on 2017-01-06 16:26 (UTC): On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:45:28AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Felix Miata wrote: The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from doing so. I wish to go

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/6/2017 10:44 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 09:45:28 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: [snip] The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from doing so.

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/6/2017 10:48 AM, David Wright wrote: On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 16:26:55 (+), Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:45:28AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: [snip] The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it gets a new

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/6/2017 10:26 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:45:28AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: [snip] The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from doing

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I'd do exactly as Darac suggests, with one adjustment: On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 04:26:55PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > My thoughts would be to mark the partition you wish to use as swap as "Do > not use" in the installer. Then, on the first boot, add the partition > manually to /etc/fstab: > >

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 16:26:55 (+), Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:45:28AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > >>[snip] > >> > >>The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it > >>gets a new UUID, unless you go out of

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 09:45:28 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > >[snip] > > > >The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it > >gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from > >doing so. > > > > I wish to go out of

Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:45:28AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: [snip] The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from doing so. I wish to go out of my way, so to

Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

2017-01-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: [snip] The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from doing so. I wish to go out of my way, so to speak. Can you point me to "the road less traveled"? My environment

Re: Change of UUID?

2016-09-23 Thread Felix Miata
Hans composed on 2016-09-23 19:10 (UTC+0200): > BUT - Now the problem: From time to time Can you give an example of such time? Sure, from time-to-time means 2-3 times a week, but randomly. The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it gets a new UUID, unless you go

Re: Change of UUID?

2016-09-23 Thread Hans
Hi Felix, > > BUT - Now the problem: From time to time > > Can you give an example of such time? > Sure, from time-to-time means 2-3 times a week, but randomly. > The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it gets a new > UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it

Re: Change of UUID?

2016-09-23 Thread Felix Miata
Hans composed on 2016-09-23 17:20 (UTC+0200): I need some help for understanding things. On my EEEPC I am usiing encrypted partitions, also swap is encrypted (all luks), too. When I ssuspend to disk, the memory is written to the encrypted swap partition, which is /dev/mapper/swap. In