Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-02-23 09:59, Peter Suetterlin wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
I thought I would do a full reinstall this time - just server pattern on a xen guest. I noticed the partitioner did not automatically re-use an existing swap parittion, but opted to carve a new one out.
I'd call it the safe way. Could be the existing one contains a hibernated system?
Formatting the swap partition of an hibernated system will cause it to crash, and corrupt all the partitions it was using.
Nitpicking: It's not running, so it can hardly crash :D While yes, it's likely leaving unclean partitions, I'd expect the hibernate script also to do something like a sync before, so damage should be small. Better than just switching off the power/pressing reset, which most systems handle quite well these days.
Normally, a computer that is hibernated will not allow to boot any other system, including the install DVD/stick.
What? TBH, this is the first time I ever hear this. And I *have* booted hibernated systems with a different OS. Quite some time ago though - I'm exclusively using suspend nowadays.
If the partitioner finds an hibernation image it should abort.
NACK, by all means. I might very well know what I'm doing. Just aborting and refusing to work is exactly the kind of Windows-typical behavior that I do **NOT** want to see on Linux. A clear warning is fine. Everything else is not -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org