Default setting for system suspend in Ubuntu install CD

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 8 03:35:30 UTC 2012


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On 03/06/2012 07:54 AM, Roberto NM wrote:
> The thing is, I think that the default setting on closing the lid of a
> laptop should be set to do nothing instead of suspend. At least do this for
> the install/live CD environment.
> It makes no sense that you keep this setting as "suspend" when this could
> interrupt the install or disk partitioning tasks. The second of those
> happened to me and it screwed up my windows partition big time, the NTFS
> got corrupted and my partition became unbootable. Not to mention recovering
> some of the data took a long time since chkdsk takes days on a 1TB hard
> drive.

After resuming from a suspend, the system picks right up where it left off, so it should not cause any sort of corruption.


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