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ubiquity package

Swap partition smaller than RAM (entire disk install)

Bug #872405 reported by Chad A Davis on 2011-10-11

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This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Expired	Medium	Unassigned

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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Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote on 2011-10-11:

#1

Casper.txt Edit (4.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityDebug.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquityPartman.txt Edit (160.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UbiquitySyslog.txt Edit (205.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote on 2011-10-12:

#2

This only occurred with kubuntu desktop, not with ubuntu desktop.

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-10-12

tags:	added: kubuntu
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote on 2011-10-15:

#3

Why is this a bug? I don't believe there is a requirement to have the swap partition >= size of RAM (like there was on some very very very old UNIX systems); if you're getting 2GB into swap you've got some major problems anyway.

Dave

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Chad A Davis (chadadavis) wrote on 2011-10-17:

#4

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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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote on 2011-10-17:

#5

Actually yes, I'd completely forgotten about hibernation - in which case your point makes sense.

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote on 2014-01-03:

#6

It has been some time since you reported this and 11.10 has been end of life for a while. Have you seen this issue lately with 12.04 or 13.10?

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-03-05:

#7

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Expired

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