Bug#582223: partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv

To: 582223@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#582223: partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv
From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:25:31 +0200
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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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