wubi uninstaller may erase user data by mistake
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Wubi |
Fix Released
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High
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Agostino Russo | ||
Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
There is a problem in hardy wubi uninstaller that may cause data loss.
Wubi uninstaller checks the partitions and finds the first partition that contains a "ubuntu" folder, then erases that folder.
This is bad when someone has other folders with the same name "ubuntu" under other drive letters.
A user posted at the chinese ubuntu forum that he had a "ubuntu" folder under drive G: which contains his documents, and the wubi installation was at J:\ubuntu. When he uninstalled wubi, the ubuntu folder at drive G: was removed and J:\ubuntu was left untouched. (Unfortunately G: comes first)
The post can be found here: http://
I confirmed this bug in a virtual machine and i consider it a serious bug.
Changed in wubi: | |
assignee: | nobody → ago |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in wubi: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
Changed in wubi: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?t=816037