Bug 239427

Summary: Swap initialization during install to HDD
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sai Kiran Kanuri <saikiranrgda>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
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Description Sai Kiran Kanuri 2007-05-08 12:14:29 UTC
Description of problem:

When installing to Hard disk from Live CD, after partitioning, if the swap
partition is not selected for formatting, installation fails 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 7 test 4

How reproducible:
every time on my PC.
 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select install into hard drive. 
2. Already you pc should have a SWAP partition.
3. Do not select the SWAP partition for formatting. 
  
Actual results:
Installation is aborted

Expected results:
The installation should automatically initialize SWAP

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-05-14 18:52:35 UTC
What was previously on the swap?  We'll initialize it if you say to format it,
but if you explicitly go in and say "don't format", then we don't.

Comment 2 Sai Kiran Kanuri 2007-05-15 05:25:58 UTC
It is used as Swap for my Previous FC6. 
what i would prefer is, anaconda detects the swap and automatically initialize
it for me, unless i explicitly say no.
Is it necessary for the swap to be formatted every time i install a OS. is it
not the same for every version for all versions. I am aware of only two versions
of SWAP FS. Almost all versions use version two by default. 

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2007-05-15 15:03:18 UTC
There are a few reasons that can lead to the swap not being properly formatted;
explicitly saying not to format it definitely can lead to problems (and there's
no reason not to, hence why we do so by default).