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To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...
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Doug,

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Doug Poland wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:01:42AM -0400, user wrote:
> > 
> > Finally, are there any snapshot diag tools at all ?  Like, something that
> > reports snapshot sizes, percent of disk used for snapshots, and maybe even
> > a way for me to actually calculate what the percent change for time period
> > X is for a particular filsystem >?
> > 
> I find sysutils/freebsd-snapshot quite useful, although it doesn't do
> everything you're asking for.


Thanks - I will check that out.

Any comments on my math ?  (changing the same 5% of the FS all the time
vs. changing different 5%'s, and what that means for successive
snapshots) ?

thanks.