[Bug 224493] Re: live CD automatically used Solaris partition as swap, corrupting it

[Paul White]

This issue has sat with a status of 'Incomplete' for more than four
years now without any response so it is being closed as 'Invalid' and
the previous comments are more than eleven years old.

The upstream bug was closed in 2008 as "RESOLVED NOTGNOME"

Please feel free to re-open this bug report if this is still an issue
when using a currently supported release of Ubuntu and tell us in which
release you still experience this issue.

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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Title:
  live CD automatically used Solaris partition as swap, corrupting it

Status in GParted:
  Unknown
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I had a partition with tag bf = solaris
  It contained solaris 10 devel express, but maybe full of zeros might be a test case
  i booted livecd ubuntu-8.04
  It showed swapon -s sda3 and sda7 as active swap sections
  There is no sda7! Maybe its from the livecd /etc/fstab ?
  I ran swapoff sda3
  *** TOO LATE *** although no pages swapped out, the signature was written
  maybe the livecd had already ran mkswap

  I ran ubuntu install,
  in ALT-F1 I ran fdisk, it showed the partition tag bf
  in the GUI, gparted started, I said 'do not touch partition'
  it overwrote the part-tag with 82

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530657
   
  I suspect that mkswap was run for me,
  but I want told, wasnt asked, and am now unhappy
  od -cx shows that the safety watermark is there
  so other things can auto swapon,
  and maybe next time pages will be swapped onto it.

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