Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss
Markus Hitter
mah at jump-ing.de
Thu Oct 30 07:18:26 UTC 2008
Am 29.10.2008 um 20:52 schrieb Phillip Susi:
> Markus Hitter wrote:
>> Glad to see standby and suspend getting more attention.
>> For the records, I'm even dual-booting two suspended states on
>> the same computer. Using Grub, I can choose wether to resume the
>> suspended (hibernated) Windows XP or the suspended Intrepid.
>> Works like a charm.
>
> Just make sure you do not mount any of the same partitions in both
> OSes. For example, if you mount the windows NTFS partition from
> Ubuntu while windows is hibernated, it will cause corruption.
Actually, Ubuntu's ntfs3g detects this situation and refuses to mount
a hibernated volume. I'm not sure about the other way. But there are
similar pitfalls, like booting a different kernel (unfortunately
doesn't fail).
MarKus
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Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter
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