From: Sebastian Leske (sleske@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2001 - 00:08:45 CEST
Hi,
> > This is IMHO a critical bug. You just configure a disk on one
> > computer to use a swap partition, then if you ever put it into a
> > different computer (or repartition), the disk will immediately &
> > mercylessly trash whatever partition happens to have the number of
> > the swap partition in the original setup.
>
> True: a problem. But to save a profile with a reference to a swap
> partition is a very bud idea.
Well, *you* know that, being a developer. But how should I have
known... ? :-| That's why I sent my report.
> Originally, the test was simply:
>
> if [ $ACTION = ask_the_user ] ; then
>
> ....
>
> fi
>
> In this case, swap initialization starts only in the configuration
> stage.
That sounds reasonable. Maybe you can just make it so that the
mkswap is only executed during manual configuration, where there
already is a good warning message.
During automatic setup, it should just do a swapon, that will
gracefully fail with an error msg if the given partition is not swap.
Greetings and keep up your great work,
Sebastian
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