https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508845

--- Comment #4 from Andrius Štikonas <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to stellarpower from comment #3)
> Is there any chance of backporting this change? I'm using a live USB
> (LUbuntu 24.04, released 2025-08-05) and now am seriously concerned I've
> just killed a partition that was working perfectly fine just because I
> wanted more free space. On top of the default checking, there's no output,
> it's been running for two hours on a ~500G partition (from GParted or ext4
> it's usually a few-minute job before resizing). The progress is 0% and I see
> it using one whole core and a lot of memory in htop but otherwise I have no
> idea what it's doing. 
> 
> I'm on PartitionManager 23.08.5 and from that tag, the readme says there
> aren't any open bugs for anything serious that could cause data loss.
> Admittedly the bug won't have been open at the time, but hopefully you see
> what I'm saying. Whilst maybe this will end up turning out fine, I'm quite
> concerned about severe data loss, and pretty recent distro releases (same
> month as the original date of this issue) evidently are shipping a version
> of PartitionManager that could be wiping out people's discs. I see some
> mention of similarish situations here and just through google where it may
> have been attempted through the CLI to worry it's a common enough situation.
> Could this issue be considered high enough of a concern to patch that one
> line back into older releases and try to get it through different
> distributions?

Even if you run with --repair it's unlikely to cause any problems, e.g. I never
had problems on my system. There is probably a bit of confirmation bias if you
search online for it though.

Anyway, it's up to distros to make backports. KDE does not do releases from
such old branches anyway.

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