Bug#370487: partitions get formated after unsure confirmation in graphical installer
Source: partman-base
Followup-For: Bug #370487
On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 13:35:29 +0000, James wrote:
> If the user selects 'undo', or if 'no' is selected and the operator continues
> from the second step, then the user is taken back to the 'partition disks'
> menu without any changes being written to disk (I checked that the modification
> time on the file-backed disk image I was using in testing had not been updated;
> not a cast-iron guarantee, but a fairly strong indicator I think).
A pedantic follow-up note related to this: I also confirmed the converse
behaviour (that is: after selecting 'yes' to write changes to disk, the
modification time on the file-backed disk image was updated as expected,
indicating that changes were indeed written in that case).
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