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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 2016-05-05 kl. 22:27, skrev Israel:
> Hi all,
> I have done some testing with the most recent ISO.
> There is an issue.
> If I resize a partition and add a new partition, then try to reuse the
> original swap, the original OS does not find the swap.
> This has the long boot bug.
>
> The solution?
> perhaps the only real solution is to manually generate fstab files for
> EVERY install that exists, assuming that they are on the same device (if
> it is repartitioned)  I do not think this issue existed previous to
> systemd inclusion, but systemd does something to verify the UUID of the
> drives, and this causes issues in our instance.
>
> So unfortunately there is more testing to be done....

Hi Israel,

[Replying again]

I have not yet done the testing, but I have tried to understand.

Are you saying that ToriOS debian does not accept to 're-use' the swap 
partition's UUID, hence making it hard to share a swap partition with a 
previously installed system?

I am not sure [yet] that it should be blamed on systemd, because Xenial 
and Yakkety are not affected and they boot via systemd. Maybe it is a 
feature of Debian, that it creates/refreshes the swap partition. In that 
case you can try to store the UUID in a shell variable uidsav and reuse 
it with

mkswap -U $uidsav $swaptarget

instead of having to rewrite all the fstab files.

(Maybe this is what you have already done ?!)

Best regards
Nio