Public bug reported:
There is a problem in hardy wubi uninstaller that may cause data loss.
Wubi uninstaller checks the partitions and finds the first partition that
contains a "ubuntu" folder, then erases that folder.
This is bad when someone has other folders with the same name "ubuntu" under
other drive letters.
A user posted at the chinese ubuntu forum that he had a "ubuntu" folder under
drive G: which contains his documents, and the wubi installation was at
J:\ubuntu. When he uninstalled wubi, the ubuntu folder at drive G: was removed
and J:\ubuntu was left untouched. (Unfortunately G: comes first)
The post can be found here: http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?t=117746
I confirmed this bug in a virtual machine and i consider it a serious bug.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: data loss uninstaller wubi
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wubi uninstaller may erase user data by mistake
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236741
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