should not format swap partitions
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Espresso should not format swap partitions by default, nor should it touch swap partitions on the system if they are enabled in the system.
Reason: I tried to install xubuntu on my Satellite Pro Notebook with 64 MB of RAM. Since this is not enough, I tried to activate a swap partition on my system. Since that didn't work (dev/resource busy) I suppose the Live CD already did that. Now, I just clicked standardly through the install and decided to let espresso do the partitioning stuff. It did so and deleted & formatted the used swap partition (or tried) -> result: xsession was killed.
I suppose this is a very special situation, but since xubuntu is meant for legacy systems, this case is not really that uncommon.
Ok, just to add that comment, the live cd does indeed search for swap partitions, if it is low on memory, so this is really a problem!