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TanKe

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Registered: 2012-02-25

Posts: 6

INSTALLER: Where is swap partition?

Does Slitaz support swap? The installer does not see one. I always do 3 main partitions: 1 swap, 1 root and 1 home. I can see the three of them but the installer only configures root and home.

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: INSTALLER: Where is swap partition?

Because swap space gets detected and used automatically - you don't have to configure it if you already created it.

TanKe

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Registered: 2012-02-25

Posts: 6

Re: INSTALLER: Where is swap partition?

So there is no need to manually create a swap partition with gparted? or i do it anyway?

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: INSTALLER: Where is swap partition?

Tazpanel SliTaz Installer/tazinst can't make partitions of any type and can't format swap partitions. It can format / and /home partitions only.

It is convenient for reformating/reinstalling slitaz to an existing partition.

My only objection is that it includes microsoft filesystem options (fat32,ntfs) to which linux should never be installed.

Use this: Applications/System Tools/Gparted Partition Editor

There is no need to manually add swap to the fstab file.

Line 194 of bootopts.sh adds the swap partition to /etc/fstab if it detects a swap partition and runs swapon -a.

http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/file/7cb24a5569e4/etc/init.d/bootopts.sh

domcox

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 104

Re: INSTALLER: Where is swap partition?

@mojo: You're right, fat32 and ntfs options are now gone. Fixed in http://hg.slitaz.org/tazpanel/rev/c025287a4253

TanKe

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Registered: 2012-02-25

Posts: 6

Re: INSTALLER: Where is swap partition?

Ok then. it is fully authomatic. Got it.

Thanks.