encrypted f10 install - changed after using livecd - a question?

Charlie Brej fedora-test-list at brej.org
Sun Jan 11 16:18:04 UTC 2009


Mike wrote:
> It turned out that the F10 liveCD decided to quietly take over the swap
> partition and use it for itself - so the carefully prepared encrypted swap
> was totally trashed.

Yeah that sounds like a bad thing. The other thing that can go wrong is 
hibernating the OS and the running a LiveCD which abuses the swap partition 
which was full of the memory state information. According to google that has 
been the case with all live distributions which use a swap which is found on the 
disk. I guess there is no way of flagging that it is not to be touched. I can 
imagine that may be difficult to implement if there was a crash etc.

Could you file a bugzilla bug?




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