Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:02:36 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can I recreate my .snap directories ? Message-ID: <2214.1561413756@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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I was looking at my various UFS filesystems and noticed each one had a .snap directory. I did some small amount of reading about the purpose of these online and was (incorrectly) persuaded that they had relevance only to people using dump/restore for backups which I personally don't use. So I went 'round and deleted each one from each of my UFS filesystems. In short, I bozo'd it. Now I just read the newfs man page, and the description of the -n option, and I see that these .snap directories are needed to support background fsck. So, can I just recreate them all, on my existing USF filesystems, i.e. via mkdir, and then setting the proper owner, group, and permissions? I mean they don't need to appear first in the relevant directory files or anything special like that, do they?
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