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Article #173Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive
From: Addle Jones
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:36
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:36
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Summercool wrote: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/browse_thread/thread/4e798345b0867259/a47e92401f123e53#a47e92401f123e53 >> Installing Ubuntu erased the whole hard drive without warning > > > Partition merely means dividing the data. It doesn't mean erasing. > > I can partition my drive without losing a single file. > > yet ubuntu's partition didn't clearly say that it will erase the whole > drive besides dividing the drive. My "favorite" Linux bug of all time was when an installer for one of the major commercial distros destroyed a partition with a lot of valuable data. The problem, it turns out, was that the installer used one program to identify the partitions when it asked you which partitions to use for what. Then it used a different program to do the formatting. But the two programs put the partitions in different order under some circumstances. Well ... it just so happened that my partitions were ordered differently by these two programs, so the wrong partition got overwritten. I had so many problems like that during the decade I was running Linux ... God only knows how I hung on as long as I did. I still get a nauseated feeling when I see a Linux desktop, more than a year and a half after switching to Mac.
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