On 18 November 2016 at 12:02, Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > On 18.11.2016 12:44, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> Another thing I am investigating is moving away from swap partitions to >> swap files, on non-lvm installations. This will involve tweaking the >> default partman-auto recipes & the no-swap warning. > > Note that you should then also check that the memory available to the > installer is sufficient to proceed without swap. (Especially for locales > generation and such.) >
Right so the no-swap warning comes after partitioning scheme is finalised, but before swapfile is created and activated. I still want to default to having some swap. But have that provided via swap partition, or a swapfile. So far my scripts are a bit hackish as the swapfile does not form part of the parted aware things / something one cas specify in partman-auto recipes. It really is tucked on the side, in finish.d, at the moment. I have no solution yet for e.g. partman-auto automic recipe which uses swapfile, if the rootfs filesystem is ext4; but creates a swap partition if the rootfs filesystem is btrfs. And i'm not quite sure how to express that in the recipe, or decode it. -- Regards, Dimitri.