Anaconda Installer: Use of swap space on a multi-drive, multiboot system

[Robert L Cochran]

I myself can't think of anything off the top of my head other than I do 
not want an OS' installer to mess with other drives on a system. There 
just isn't a good reason for destroying the contents of another drive's 
partitions. That is what anaconda is doing here.

Bob


Tom Diehl wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> 
> 
>>If the user specifies an allowable hard drive in a multi-drive machine, 
>>you should only use the allowed drive as the source of a swap partition. 
>>Speaking for myself, I don't want the installer to mess with my other 
>>drives unless I explicitly allow that.
>>
>>I have not yet been given a single good reason for the installer to 
>>format a swap partition on another drive, either.
> 
> 
> Well let me play devil's advocate and ask what are the downsides to having
> it use/format a "linux swap partition" on another drive. Is there some other
> potential use for it??
> 

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Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/