On 4/4/06, Erin Fortenberry <Erin at fortenberry.net> wrote: > This is where I sit with FreeBSD. In version 5.x and up, you can snapshot > the slice (partition) to make sure everything goes nice. It seems after > reading http://dump.sourceforge.net/ that we are not there yet on Linux. Earlier versions of CentOS 4 had bugs relating to snapshots, but those should all be fixed in CentOS 4.3. (Note that the FAQ on dump.sourceforge.net is a few years old.) I think that CentOS 3 also has stable snapshotting capability, but I'm not certain. Josh Kelley