Bug#582223: partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv
severity 582223 normal
tags 582223 wontfix
thanks
On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Bastian Blank wrote:
> partman wants to overwrite the swap partitions on a already setup
> machine. As swap partition can contain hibernation data, this is an
> data-destroying operation.
Doing any system install while the system is in hibernation is asking for
trouble and IMO is simply user error. I don't think we need to support
that case.
See also the warning at the top of:
http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/i386/ch05s01.html.en
Cheers,
FJP
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