Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubulle@debian.org): > Quoting Aleksandr Levchuk (alevchuk@cs.ucr.edu): > > Package: os-prober > > Version: 1.39 > > Severity: important > > > > > > An upgrade (os-prober 1.35 -> 1.39) corrupted 3.3 TB of data on our SAN. > > Sigh. From what I've witnessed over the years, os-prober has always > been designed as a component of Debian Installer, used to properly > setup boot loaders' menus at install time. > > Apparently, recent evolutions turned it to be installed on running > systems *because* grub recommends it. well, Colin Watson is about to say that he disagrees with that analysis..:-) Let's have him elaborate...
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