Public bug reported:
Setup was software raid 1 with 4 partitions, root, home, srv and swap.
Swap would not mount and computer would not restart correctly, but then
this was on feisty herd 5, and that's a seperate bug.
But the bug is that when trying to mount the swap, doing mkswap and
swapon, I accidentally put the /srv partition as a param and mkswap
converted a mounted ext3 partition into a swap space without asking any
questions.
I don't know if this is only when dealing with software raid partitions
or a problem in general, but this is clearly a bug. This operation
should not be allowed on a mounted drive and not on a drive not marked
for another filesystem.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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mkswap overwrites existing partitions
https://launchpad.net/bugs/96899
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