Upgradeinstaller installs / to wrong place if you have separate partitions
Bug #573966 reported by
Larry Tate
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have two hard drives. One contains separate partitions for /, /home, and /swap. I have a separate hard drive where I routinely back up my /home folder as backup.
Upon installing 10.04 from 9.10 using the upgrade option, the installer installed / on my back up drive, where I keep my backup of /home. I would expect that the installer would instead choose my current root folder for this.
Unfortunately, due to the confusion over what had happened, I have experienced a serious data loss. This is a serious bug.
affects: | ubuntu → update-manager (Ubuntu) |
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You can follow my progress here: http:// ubuntuforums. org/showthread. php?p=9221997& posted= 1#post9221997
I've determined that the installer for 10.10 switched the hard drive labels during my installation. I have two drives: sda and sdb. For some reason, 10.10 switches them. Perhaps this was the cause of mis-installing the root folder on the wrong drive? This seems like a pretty serious problem.