Software suspend is scary, and multiple booting

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:29:08AM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> Well, I beleive when there is suspend information in the swap, the swap
> is invalid and so any other OS booted simply wont mount it, so its not
> *catastrophic*
> 
> I could be wrong, but I'm fairly sure swsusp1 does that (I know suspend2
> does for sure)

Ubuntu, at least, notices this, assumes that a resume failed, and clobbers
it back into a swap partition.

Otherwise, a failed resume leaves the user permanently lacking swap.

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 - mdz