Thanks for the tips; OpenSUSE 11.3 runs on 2.6.34, which as far as I can tell has the snapshot deletion built in, but I'd better test it before I rely on it. R

Thanks for the tips; OpenSUSE 11.3 runs on 2.6.34, which as far as I can tell has the snapshot deletion built in, but I'd better test it before I rely on it. Re booting: I've already got a boot partition as my root is a logical volume on top of a RAID5 array anyway (thinking about changing this though - probably better to buy 2 new much bigger HDDs and RAID1 them instead).