Re: Back to the future.

[David Lang]

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
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