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| author | Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-03-08 06:02:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-03-22 06:34:15 +0000 |
| commit | 8295571e3f6a3de2fd0d3fcdcb9882bf73a47967 (patch) | |
| tree | 8d496365e615c9707e33808873133e083fa2d26b | |
| parent | 79edbb740882f1337d6d64aaa3c6f1754f6c4205 (diff) | |
| download | src-8295571e3f6a3de2fd0d3fcdcb9882bf73a47967.tar.gz src-8295571e3f6a3de2fd0d3fcdcb9882bf73a47967.zip | |
FFS/UFS snapshots: improve documentation for removal (deletion) and unlinking.
Clarification of the size of the snapshot file.
Suggested by: Matteo Riondato
PR: 266358
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38817
Approved by: re (gjb)
(cherry picked from commit 129ea078cd16b768a1100b497282fd9359e8dfea)
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 b/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 index 6274e93a4adb..2bba68150636 100644 --- a/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 +++ b/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ Snapshots can be listed using the command. .Pp After a snapshot is taken it appears as a file. -The file is the size of the file system from which it was taken. +The size of the snapshot file is equal to the size of the +file system from which it was taken. It can be moved, renamed or deleted (which removes the snapshot). .Pp The group ownership of the file is set to |