RE: Backing up ext3 root partition with dd

["Wolber, Richard C" <richard c wolber boeing com>]

tweeks said:
> 
> For the same reason you can't xerox a piece of paper that 
> your wiggling. ;)
> 
> More precisely... the act of mounting it in a state other 
> than read only makes it "uncopy-able" (from an image 
> perspective).  It sounds like you want a type of snapshot 
> feature like what XFS offers.

Or LVM snapshots.

..Chuck..