Bug#417407: installing to a box with suspended system

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*.

The installer will also in principle automatically reuse an existing swap partition during the installation...
In my opinion this is a completely different issue than the subject of this report.

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".

Setting follow-up for this to the mailing list as this does not belong in this bug report.

Cheers,
FJP

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