[Bug 872405] Re: Swap partition smaller than RAM (entire disk install)

[Chad A. Davis]

It's a bug because it's done that way on every other Ubuntu flavor, on the same machine. There is a clear and obvious pattern and one of them is doing something different and unpredictable.
I also personally am not a fan of swap, but the installer still creates it by default. I imagine this is partly because hibernation is disabled otherwise.

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Title:
  Swap partition smaller than RAM (entire disk install)

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Installing kubuntu-oneiric-desktop-amd64+mac.iso (2011-10-11) with
  'guided: entire disk' partitioning, a swap partition of 2GB is
  created, despite the machine having 4GB of RAM. This is a
  MacBookPro6,2.

  This is unique from bug 760336, which refers to the debian-installer
  and has limited disk space. Here the machine has a 298GB disk. The
  ext4 root partition occupies 296GB, the bios_grub partition occupies
  about 1MB.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 11 19:50:59 2011
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64+mac (20111011)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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