Bug#368633: marked as done (partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable)
Your message dated Wed, 24 May 2006 12:04:34 +0200
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and subject line Bug#368633: partman: LVM automatic partitioning not undoable
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Package: partman
Severity: critical
Justification: causes serious data loss
I burned a D-I image for a friend (the latest weekly Debian CD as of Mar
12 15:12) and chose to play with it a bit to see if it was clearly
broken in some obvious way or likely okay for out purposes.
Once I had verified enough that I thought the build was fine (and It did
work for the install), I decided to try out the LVM option in the
"guided partitioning", since I had never done so before and I wanted to
see what how it would arrange the partitions. The guided partitioning
page clearly states that you will have a chance to review and undo the
guided partitioning, and is correct for regular partitions, but LVM
occurs immeditely, it seems, and even gpart was unable to restore my
data. I was able to salvage the python programs I had been working on,
but nothing else.
Since there is almost certainly a reason LVM gets applied immeditely,
most likely that cannot be changed, but I am of the opinion that the
diolog where you can select it should clearly state that the operation
cannot be undone and may well kill working installations.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-eriix
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:37:18PM -0700, ERIIX M. Blaike wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 21:54 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > Please tell us more about what you did.
<snip/>
> 2: In the guided partitioning, choose "Erase entire disk and use LVM"
<snip/>
> Actually, my problem is done and gone. I lost almost everything on my
> laptop due primarilly to my own inattention. I knew that LVM setup
> in partman proper requires saving the partition table and should have
> realized from this that the guided partitioning would have to play by
> the same rules. I just don't want anyone else in this situation.
Thank you for your warning.
I'm closing your bugreport, because we can't fix inattention.
"Erase entire disk" means "Erase entire disk"
it is the same as "rm -rf /" does remove all files.
A personal advice:
Allow people to make mistakes, it is part of the learn process
Cheers
Geert Stappers
--
The problem with America is stupidy.
Why don't we remove all the labels and let solve the problem itself?
--some wise American
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