From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 13 16:15:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5486416A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:15:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail1.acecape.com (mail1.acecape.com [66.114.74.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D577643D31 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:15:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@natserv.com) Received: from p65-147.acedsl.com (p65-147.acedsl.com [66.114.65.147]) by mail1.acecape.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iADGFbcF016819 for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:15:38 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:19:18 -0500 (EST) From: Francisco Reyes X-X-Sender: fran@zoraida.natserv.net To: FreeBSD Questions List Message-ID: <20041113110938.Q85262@zoraida.natserv.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: A couple of 5.3 questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 16:15:40 -0000 Plan to soon move to 5.3 through a backup, fresh install proces.. One of the main reasons I am moving is for the snapshot capability. Reading the man for MKSNAP_FFS(8) I see mksnap_ffs mountpoint snapshot_name Question: Does mountpoint has to be a filesystem or can it be a directory? For example if I have: / /usr /var Can I make a snapshot of /usr/home? Or I can only do /usr? Then I went on to look at how to mount snapshopts, and although found the info, got a little more confused. The mount command has in the man page: snapshot This option allows a snapshot of the specified file system to be taken. So is mount or mksnap_ffs that makes the snapshot? The only reason I am trying to get this info is to know if to make a separate filesystem for files I would like to snapshot.