Package: install
Version: 2.2r3 (potato)
Severity: high
The install routine has a serious bug detecting an existing swap partition.
My disk layout:
hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 847.21
hda3 Primary BSD/386 7567.26
hda5 Logical Linux ext2 4745.99
hda6 Logical Linux swap 411.27
The extended partition is hda4, I don't have hda2.
The kernel says (dmesg|grep hda)
hda: IBM-DJNA-371350, ATA DISK drive
hda: 26520480 sectors (13578 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=1650/255/63
hda: hda1 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 >
hda3: <bsd: hda7 hda8 hda9 >
The problem is that the installation routine suggested /dev/hda9 - and only
/dev/hda9 - as swap partition. This is, of course, my FreeBSD-/usr-filesystem.
I'm lucky that I knew that the BSD-partitions get the highest numbers in
Linux, else I probably had lost a lot of data.
I think that the routine gets confused by the BSD-Partition and "thinks" the
last partition must be hda9.
Imho this bug is very dangerous, so I suggest a high severity.
Greetings
Andreas
PS: Please excuse my bad English.
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