Bad suggestion, Adam. I don't know that the debian installer acts that
way. The issue is that the devuan installer is deciding on its own to
re-format an existing swap partition.

On 03/21/2016 05:17 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 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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