Re: Back to the future.

David Lang
2007-04-26T23:30:52Z

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
>>> That's a feature. If you are booting from live CD, you _want_ to erase
>>> any hibernation image.
>>
>> why?
>>
>> it's been stated that doing a std and booting another OS (including
>> windows) is a valid and common useage. saying that if you boot another OS
>> you trash your suspended image doesn't sound reasonable.
>
> If you hibernate your machine, boot from live cd, and change anything
> on any filesystem, you are pretty likely to loose that filesystem.

booting from a live CD doesn't mean that you are going to mount the filesystem,
let alone change it. but swap is not supposed to be this sensitive.

David Lang

> Doing that with Windows is okay as Windows do not usually write to
> ext3 partitions.
> Pavel
>