Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:37:02 -0400 (EDT) From: user <user@dhp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: creating snapshot capable ufs2 filesystems _after the fact_ Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0510201234390.8180-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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I was just looking at the man page for newfs, and the new "-n" option ... basically if you newfs with -n, a .snap directory is not created in the new filesystem, and thus that new filesystem will not support snapshots. Does this mean that if I simply `mkdir .snap` in the root of a filesystem that suddenly it is snapshot capable ? That is to say, is that .snap directory simply a plain old directory, and having a ufs2 filesystem support or not support snapshots is only dependent on simply having that directory in place ? Or is there more to .snap and to the -n option ?
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