[Bug 224493] Re: live CD automatically used Solaris partition as swap, corrupting it

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** Changed in: gparted
   Importance: Unknown => Critical

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Title:
  live CD automatically used Solaris partition as swap, corrupting it

Status in Gnome Partition Editor:
  Unknown
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I had a partition with tag bf = solaris
  It contained solaris 10 devel express, but maybe full of zeros might be a test case
  i booted livecd ubuntu-8.04
  It showed swapon -s sda3 and sda7 as active swap sections
  There is no sda7! Maybe its from the livecd /etc/fstab ?
  I ran swapoff sda3
  *** TOO LATE *** although no pages swapped out, the signature was written
  maybe the livecd had already ran mkswap

  I ran ubuntu install,
  in ALT-F1 I ran fdisk, it showed the partition tag bf
  in the GUI, gparted started, I said 'do not touch partition'
  it overwrote the part-tag with 82

  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530657
   
  I suspect that mkswap was run for me,
  but I want told, wasnt asked, and am now unhappy
  od -cx shows that the safety watermark is there
  so other things can auto swapon,
  and maybe next time pages will be swapped onto it.

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