Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (437 mails)

[Arvin Schnell <aschnell@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 12:30:16PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2015-03-30 12:09, Marcos Mello wrote:
> > > > > But the distribution policy is to use UUID 
> > > > > We should be opening a FATE request to revert that for swap partitions.
> > > >
> > > > We should be using PARTUUID indeed.
> > > > But then again, is there not some magic which just automatically goes 
> > > > through all swap devices, irrespective of any device or symlink name,
> > > > and goes to activate them?
> > > Hmm. PARTUUID doesn't help you for msdos partitions, right?
> > > Not everything's GPT...
> >
> > kernel 3.7:
> > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d33b98fc82
> > util-linux 2.24:
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=d67cc2889a
>
> PARTUUID it is, then ;-)

That will make the system prone to other modifications: When swap
is on partition 6 and you delete partition 5 the number of the
swap partition changes to 5 and you again have to update fstab.

Regards,
  Arvin

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