Package: partman Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
I burned a D-I image for a friend (the latest weekly Debian CD as of Mar 12 15:12) and chose to play with it a bit to see if it was clearly broken in some obvious way or likely okay for out purposes. Once I had verified enough that I thought the build was fine (and It did work for the install), I decided to try out the LVM option in the "guided partitioning", since I had never done so before and I wanted to see what how it would arrange the partitions. The guided partitioning page clearly states that you will have a chance to review and undo the guided partitioning, and is correct for regular partitions, but LVM occurs immeditely, it seems, and even gpart was unable to restore my data. I was able to salvage the python programs I had been working on, but nothing else. Since there is almost certainly a reason LVM gets applied immeditely, most likely that cannot be changed, but I am of the opinion that the diolog where you can select it should clearly state that the operation cannot be undone and may well kill working installations. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-eriix Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
