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 Message-ID: <CAKE2PDudJ57mWhPKU7XhEz85QG1Gywxt8U=sW1i7T6Nf269h3g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAKoxK%2B7brXXBE=JxPQHm06a2SEMiGC7k3eF95o7aQ90Hi__3Fg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKE2PDuSGsrf7mHfd2zo-BJAhsOL4KDKTmdROBwtJKeFrvWCBw@mail.gmail.com> <CAKoxK%2B7brXXBE=JxPQHm06a2SEMiGC7k3eF95o7aQ90Hi__3Fg@mail.gmail.com>
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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 -- ------- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboogie@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boogie@jit.si
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