This bug is extremely serious. If you don't happen to have your ESP backed up, you'll have a hard time recovering when it bites. Beyond the obvious problem of trashing other OSs' files, even after restoring the trashed boot loaders, if another Linux distribution referenced the ESP via a "UUID=" entry, it will have problems because the "UUID" (really just a FAT serial number) will have changed. Fedora 15, for instance, fails to boot until its /etc/fstab is updated. If you restore the computer by creating a fresh FAT32 filesystem, Ubuntu will have the same problem.
Overall, this is an unforgivable bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/769669 Title: Installer should not format an existing EFI SYSTEM PARTITION and should use FAT32 instead of FAT16 as the FS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-efi/+bug/769669/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
