On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 04:29:47PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote:
> On today's install device, I had a pre-existing linux with a swap
> partition on the disk, and the partitioner insisted on re-formatting it.
> This is BAD. It changes the UUID of the swap partition, which messes up
> the other operating systems on the device, because the recent 'best
> practice' has been to identify partitions in fstab by UUID.
>
> It significantly slows the boot of those other linuxes, and they lose
> their swap, and the sysadmin has to manually fix the fstab.

As your problem is not specific in any way to Devuan, I suggest reporting it
upstream, ie, in Debian.

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