Re: Mulinux trashed my root device

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Sun Aug 19 2001 - 20:48:20 CEST


On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:33:24AM +0200, Sebastian Leske nicely wrote:

> This is IMHO a critical bug. You just configure a disk on one computer
> to use a swap partition, then if you ever put it into a different
> computer (or repartition), the disk will immediately & mercylessly
> trash whatever partition happens to have the number of the swap
> partition in the original setup.

True: a problem. But to save a profile with a reference to a swap
partition is a very bud idea.

Originally, the test was simply:

if [ $ACTION = ask_the_user ] ; then

                ....

fi

In this case, swap initialization starts only in the configuration
stage.

Michele

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