#582223 partman - Wants to overwrite swap partition/lv

Package:
partman-basicfilesystems
Source:
partman-basicfilesystems
Submitter:
Bastian Blank
Date:
2010-05-19 09:27:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#582223#5
Date:
2010-05-19 08:47:57 UTC
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To:
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.

Bastian
#582223#10
Date:
2010-05-19 09:25:31 UTC
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To:
severity 582223 normal
tags 582223 wontfix
thanks
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