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os-prober package

  1. Bug #683355
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 683355

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [Bug 683355] Re: os-prober fails to find OSes on uncleanly-unmounted filesystems

On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:30:39AM -0000, NoOp wrote:
> @Colin re comment #14: I'm not sure that I understand "filesystem
> corruption in the context of hibernation". The system hasn't been
> hibernated since installing Natty on the /dev/sda7 partition.

I wasn't saying that your bug was due to hibernation. I was saying that
if I reverted the os-prober changes that caused this bug, then that
would have the effect of resurrecting an old bug that caused filesystem
corruption in the context of hibernation.

> BTW:
> $ sudo fsck /dev/sda5 && sudo update-grub
> seems simpler than:
> $ sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt && sudo umount /dev/sda5 && sudo update-grub

It may be less typing, but it may also take considerably longer to run,
depending on what needs to be checked.

> Either way something has to give, as continuing to have to go through
> contortions every time that natty installs/overwrites/changes grub is
> growing very tiresome. Next step will be to install grub to it's own
> partition so that natty can't mess with it at all.

I realise that this bug is a problem. All I'm saying is that simply
reverting to the previous state isn't an option.