On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Benjamin Franz <jfranz at freerun.com> wrote: > You can use LVM for taking snapshots as well (very useful if you want to > quiesce databases for the shortest possible time for backups) . And you > can use LVM to migrate data from an old drive to a new one or even to > *shrink* a partition. I've never found LVM to 'be a pain'. 99% of the > time it's invisible, and 1% of the time it's indispensable. I guess my ignorance is showing. It could also be that the small hard drives that I usually use with CentOS really can't take advantage of this feature. So far I haven't done much with servers, but I have been experimenting with Asterisk and plan to work through the "Foundations of CentOS" -- so that should change. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5