suspend2 and dual boot

bfkeats · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 268

Is there substantial danger in booting into windows while suspended from linux? I do it from time to time with no apparent problem. Any danger in this?

digitalenemy · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 63 Location: germany

the image is either in a file stored on a linux partition or in swap and the wakeup process is entirely done after the normal kernel booted, i don't see any problems

Abraxa · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:43 am Post subject:

Maybe he refers to mounted FAT32 partitions that might be changed through the Windows session? I'm kinda wondering about that myself...

-Soeren

bfkeats · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 268

That's exactly what I'm worried about.

Section_8 · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 627

I've never used suspend2, but looked at it. It will let you unmount partitions when suspending & remount when resuming:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Software_Suspend_v2#Mounted_hdd_partitions
You don't want to suspend with shared partitions mounted.

bfkeats · Apprentice Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: 268

I suppose that's the safest thing.