From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 23 19:13:46 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72DA72BB for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:13:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3B3A5173E for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:13:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-19-37.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.19.37]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t3NJDbmj003524 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:13:38 -0500 Message-ID: <55394461.50202@hiwaay.net> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:19:52 -0453 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: ufs snapshot help References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 19:13:46 -0000 On 04/23/15 13:04, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Also, by default, S+J is enabled. Journaling is incompatible with > snapshots. > > - M > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:38 AM, jungle Boogie > wrote: > >> Hi Luca, >> On 23 April 2015 at 02:27, Luca Ferrari wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:08 AM, jungle Boogie >> wrote: >>>> While zfs is the better choice for virtually everything, I can't quite >>>> support it on my old hardware--plus I want to learn the basics. >>>> >>> That is: ZFS is not for good for all! >>> >>>> Following this simple page: >>>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/snapshots.html >>>> >>>> # mount -u -o snapshot /var/snapshot/snap /var >>>> mount: /var/snapshot/snap: Invalid argument >>> I suspect you are trying to snapshot a filesystem that does not exist. >>> Do you have a separate filesystem for /var? >>> >> >> You're correct. New installs of FreeBSD don't seem to setup separate >> partitions. Did they ever? >> >>> Luca >> >> >> -- >> ------- >> inum: 883510009027723 >> sip: jungleboogie@sip2sip.info >> xmpp: jungle-boogie@jit.si I thought S+J (soft-updates + Journaling) was incompatible in general, it think it was as of last summer when I was getting this box up & running .... 9.3R, BTW .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.