LVM has it's own snapshot system (http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/LVM.htm#Snapshots) Shawn Fertch wrote: > On 11/20/06, *Florin Iucha* <florin at iucha.net > <mailto:florin at iucha.net>> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 08:46:22AM -0600, Nate Sanders wrote: > > I suggest in the future you do not LVM root (/). Along with > /boot (which > > cannot be LVM'd) it is a good idea to avoid doing it on your root > > partition for the reasons you've now learned. > > It depends. If you have root on LVM you can snapshot it and have nice > backups. Granted, / should not be changing much at the hour you are > doing the backups, but still... > > > > Isn't snapshot a function of the filesystem type and not LVM? > > > -- > -Shawn > > -Nemo me impune lacessit. Ne Obliviscaris.. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Nate Sanders nate at ima.umn.edu Associate Systems Manager (612) 624 - 4353 Institute for Mathematics and its Applications