Beta 11.2 rc installer dual swap partition

[rthoreau]

The installer won't select the proper swap device. After creating a swap partition it defaults to a previous swap device. This happens when you have two swap devices say one for each hard drive. At least it tells you during the install with a line like using dev/sdb5 swap or something.

I had no way to tell the partitioner to not use the Samsung swap device. I guess I could of deleted the partition but that might of left my other 11.1 install without swap.

This was taken from my /etc/fstab file.

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS721616PLA380_PVB300Z2R6WHMD-part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD250HJ_S0URJ9CQ229388-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0

If need be I can file a bug, but I doubt many people are using such a setup.

[hcvv]

When you want to tell your system (not the partitioner) not to use one of those swap partitions, remove the line from /etc/fstab and reboot. It is then free and can be used for other purposes (e.g. create a filesystem on it, etc).

[Knurpht]

You just missed the opportunity to get it right during install. Since you already have a swap partition (no need for one on each disk BTW), the installer assumes it needs to be mounted as 'swap'. During install simply edit the entry and tell the partitioner not to mount it. Then tell it to mount the other partition as 'swap'. Tested and done.

On your doubt if many people have your setup: many people tend to think their machine is exotic because it has 3 OS's or 3 HDD's. How about this one:
6 HDD's, IDE and SATA
3 OS's, 11.1, 11.2 and Ubuntu
2 NVIDIA graphic cards
2 Sound cards
2 webcams
3 external HDD's
2 Gigabit networkcards
1 Wacom tablet
1 DVB card + common interface + CAM
Yet I handle it during install as any other PC.

[rthoreau]

I might of missed it in the configuration, but I did not think to go under my old swap and not have it mounted. This machine probably won't even use swap as I have 8 gig of memory, the only reason I wanted two swap devices is the fact that I plan on removing that install from the second device once I get everything settled.

I planned on using a lvm, and my current lvm needed to be rewritten anyway. That way I can use more VM's when the time comes. This is replacing a fedora 11 lvm install, I was bitten by the ext4 bug and had a some corruption which would of required a rebuild anyway. So I decided to just redo my lvm, and go that route. Also the fact that I had already registered on the forums and a longer release cycle made a difference.