linux-kernel - Re: Back to the future.

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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:56:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Lang <david.lang@...italinsight.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.

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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