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keen4e

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Registered: 2022-09-03

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How to prevent Systemd to look for swap partitions on a dual boot?

I have the following situation on one of my disks:

/dev/sdc1-sdc5 contain stuff relevant to my encrypted linux Mint with /dev/sdc5 being an encrypted swap partition.

On /dev/sdc6 I have a very minimalist Arch that is not crypted and has almost nothing on it so I don't need a swap for it. My fstab is very simple and only contains instructions on how to mount the root partition. For some reason however when my arch linux starts and before I can login systemd detects the encrypted swap on /dev/sdc5 and asks me for a decryption passphrase.

How can I prevent this behavior and simply boot the Arch without a swap?

EDIT:
After reading a bit more on it, lot of people seem to be fairly insistent on having swap space, so I gave the system a swap file and it stopped that asking me to mount the encrypted partition.

Still though, in case I didn't want to do that, would it be possible to just force my system to run without swap?

Last edited by keen4e (2022-09-03 15:28:37)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,326

Re: How to prevent Systemd to look for swap partitions on a dual boot?

Was it being mounted using GPT_partition_automounting?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 11,911

Re: How to prevent Systemd to look for swap partitions on a dual boot?

All swap partitions located on the disk the root partition is located on are enabled.

This generator it started by default, but it can be disabled.

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