Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:57:09 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I recreate my .snap directories ? Message-ID: <CAHu1Y702UxMiFURL56-CrLUz%2B4SEPLirsYZXBz1B8=_x6rWUKw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2214.1561413756@segfault.tristatelogic.com> References: <2214.1561413756@segfault.tristatelogic.com>
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It's just a directory. mkdir -p /.snap /usr/.snap /var/.snap chown root:operator /.snap /usr/.snap /var/.snap chmod 775 /.snap /usr/.snap /var/.snap On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 3:05 PM Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --=20 "Well," Brahm=C4=81 said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is = no wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mah=C4=81bh=C4=81rata
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