From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: When installing FC 1.90 and choosing "manual partitioning using Disk Druid", the pre-existing swap partition was not marked to be formatted (like it was in FC1), but it gets used during install. Not I don't know if it gets formatted without asking, or it just works without formatting, and I don't know how to test for this. However, if all swap partitions get formatted without asking, there may be problems with other operating systems. And if it doesn't get formatted, will Fedora run with a non-functional swap partition? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install FC 1.90 (I used the boot.iso with an nfs install using a directory containing the 4 ISOs in case it matters) 2. choose manual partitioning (Disk Druid) 3. leave existing swap alone (and note there isn't a checkmark next to it in the format column) Additional info: Note: I have no problem with swap partitions getting used without asking, but I saw warnings about especially Solaris using the same partition type as Linux swap, so this "feature" may make it impossible to have FC2 coexist with such an os.
This is an intentional change. We used to always format them automatically, now we don't. They'll try to get used, but if that fails, then the failure should get ignored.