Ubuntu
os-prober package

Running os-prober on host may corrupt guest's file systems

Bug #1541891 reported by MNLipp
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os-prober (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Ubuntu wily (os-prober 1.63ubuntu2) is affected by https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788062.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in os-prober (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Hontvári József Levente (hontvari) wrote :

16.04 Xenial is also affected.

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Hontvári József Levente (hontvari) wrote :

It seems that not only it "may corrupt" but it "does corrupt" file systems if there are activities on the virtual machines. An apt-get dist-upgrade corrupted several virtual machine disks two times from two attempts.

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