Bug 331804

Summary:	a suspended windows partition makes installation fail _after_ formatting disks.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	32bit
OS:	Other
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Description Will Stephenson 2007-10-08 13:42:10 UTC

Background:  I installed 10.3 on a box with an existing dual boot setup, and did a New Installation over the existing linux install, keeping its partitions.  The windows partition was not resized or touched in any way.

After having formatted /boot and /, the installation aborted because it was unable to mount the windows partition (mount point set to /windows/c as default), because the windows was suspended to disk.  

Because /boot was already gone, I had no bootloader with which to boot windows and shut it down normally.  I had to repeat the installation and not assign windows a mount point to be able to proceed.  If linux' NTFS driver can't mount a suspended windows partition, and doing this is critical to installation, the partition should be test-mounted before beginning the installation process and making any destructive changes, so the user can back out of the install and sort out the windows.

Comment 1 Thomas Fehr 2007-10-10 15:13:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 309074 ***

Comment 2 Thomas Fehr 2007-10-10 15:31:51 UTC

To prevent abort of installation I now added code the mounts the partition
readonly (using old ntfs) if a mount using ntfs-3g fails. Nevertheless this
will lead to a system that will not boot properly since these ntfs-3g mounts
will also be present in /etc/fstab. 
Nevertheless it should be easier to cope with this problem after install than 
after an aborted installation.