On 6/23/2012 4:25 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On 2012-06-23 22:13, Istvan Gabor wrote:
I had to abort installation as I don't want the installer to touch that hard disk at all. I find it very strange that the installer tries to modify any part of any disks without the permission of the user.
It is not modifying your swap, it is using it. There is a difference.
Using swap without ever writing to it, isn't using it. Just because a partition looks and smells like a linux swap partition, even if it IS a linux swap partition, does NOT mean it's automatically OK for anything other than the system that wrote it to mount it. Even if the installer can tell that the the swap does not contain a suspend-to-swap or checkpoint/restart image, it's STILL not ok to touch it without permission because it could be of forensic value. Really there is no excuse to touch any part of any disk without both warning and permission. It doesn't matter if you can think of a reason why it might matter, you simply do not ever touch any data you didn't write yourself without express permission. You don't have to know who's it is or what it's for, you only have to know it's not yours and that's the end of the story. You can read it, and you can make your guesses as to what it looks like, and you can present the user with your proposal, and only after they agree may you write one byte anywhere other than ram. Your (and others) arguments in later posts comparing swap to memory are wrong. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org