[Bug 40788] Re: should not format swap partitions

[Phillip Susi]

"If the swap partition is busy, then you can't change the partition
table *at all* and expect the kernel to notice. (Well, you could change
the partition table on a different disk.)"

This is no longer the case today; as long as you don't change the swap
partition itself, then there's no need to unmount it.

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Title:
  should not format swap partitions

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Espresso should not format swap partitions by default, nor should it
  touch swap partitions on the system if they are enabled in the system.

  Reason: I tried to install xubuntu on my Satellite Pro Notebook with
  64 MB of RAM. Since this is not enough, I tried to activate a swap
  partition on my system. Since that didn't work (dev/resource busy) I
  suppose the Live CD already did that. Now, I just clicked standardly
  through the install and decided to let espresso do the partitioning
  stuff. It did so and deleted & formatted the used swap partition (or
  tried) -> result: xsession was killed.

  I suppose this is a very special situation, but since xubuntu is meant
  for legacy systems, this case is not really that uncommon.

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