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Date:      Thu, 23 Apr 2015 10:38:35 -0700
From:      jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com>
To:        Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ufs snapshot help
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Hi Luca,
On 23 April 2015 at 02:27, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 6:08 AM, jungle Boogie <jungleboogie0@gmail.com> 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



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