From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755210AbXDZX1f (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:27:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755218AbXDZX1f (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:27:35 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:50862 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755210AbXDZX1e (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:27:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:27:24 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: David Lang Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nigel Cunningham , Pekka Enberg , LKML Subject: Re: Back to the future. Message-ID: <20070426232724.GL21695@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1177567481.5025.211.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <84144f020704260028q190fc90fs8f9ea703e42e7910@mail.gmail.com> <1177573348.5025.224.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <20070426224256.GB21926@elf.ucw.cz> <20070426231228.GI21695@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >That's a feature. If you are booting from live CD, you _want_ to erase > >any hibernation image. > > why? > > it's been stated that doing a std and booting another OS (including > windows) is a valid and common useage. saying that if you boot another OS > you trash your suspended image doesn't sound reasonable. If you hibernate your machine, boot from live cd, and change anything on any filesystem, you are pretty likely to loose that filesystem. Doing that with Windows is okay as Windows do not usually write to ext3 partitions. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html