Changing LVM

[Corey Edwards]

On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 11:13 -0600, Brian Hawkins wrote:
> So my question is what is the best way to backup my root partition.  
> Keep in mind I need to skip /backup as that is where my backup drive is 
> mounted.

LVM on / scares me a little. I can't say I know how well this will work.
My suggestion would be to boot from a rescue CD and use tar -l or rsync
-x, both of which will refuse to cross file system boundaries.

Corey