You have to disable swap on a device (and in general unmount everything
on it) in order to convince the kernel to reload the partition table if
you make any changes to it. If you don't do this, partitioning can get
very confused.
I do agree that there is room for optimisation here. Swap only needs to
be disabled on devices that have actually changed at the partition table
level. This would allow the sort of multiple-disk case you're talking
about, as well as installing onto a pre-partitioned disk with low
memory.
** Changed in: partman-base (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: ubiquity => partman-base
Importance: Undecided => Medium
Status: New => Confirmed
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swapoff before swapon
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199048
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