On 31/10/2007, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > I tried to use the installer on a box which had a Linux system > > suspended on one disk. As I noticed that os-prober mounts the > > partitions I did not try to resume. > > According to the software suspend documentation this could cause > > serious data loss, especially since the filesystem loses consistency > > while *mounted*.
> I also think that trying to do an installation on a system that has an OS in > suspended state is not very smart. _Any_ installation of an OS is > inherently risky as you can never be sure exactly what changes it may make > on disk. Compounding that risk by having operating systems suspended is > something you should know to avoid as a user. > We could add a warning about that in the installation guide, but I don't > think there is much more that we can do than that. I would personally > qualify any data loss resulting from that as being caused by "user error". I have to agree with Frans on this, by definition a new installation can even result in data loss and making backups is advised. I would say that leaving a system in a suspended state fails from the beginning in the area of "did not do a backup as you were advised". -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
