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| author | Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-03-08 06:02:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org> | 2023-03-20 05:22:06 +0000 |
| commit | 85dc1a471591990618bc22ce6b25ac407ad4722e (patch) | |
| tree | 736be812c03350a4975d5f9ccad22a590ef2ddc6 | |
| parent | d0d1bec32ba8b3c955714f9bb6263c71e50f93a7 (diff) | |
| download | src-85dc1a471591990618bc22ce6b25ac407ad4722e.tar.gz src-85dc1a471591990618bc22ce6b25ac407ad4722e.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
(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 |