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| author | thomas <thomas@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-08-16 16:28:30 +0000 |
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| committer | thomas <thomas@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-08-16 16:28:30 +0000 |
| commit | ec5f8c0e3a91a1b189406befa3bd0d0eb4ecc585 (patch) | |
| tree | 14de5656f08cc5d63e480c9891af40f05367e078 /sbin/dump | |
| parent | babdb5cd99b2260e12d4ed4018d86159fbf9e6ed (diff) | |
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Clarify documentation of '-L' command line switch: the snapshot is
unlinked as soon as the dump starts (and removed when the dump is
completed, and the dump process exits). Previous wording was confusing
because users might expect the snapshot to be visible in the .snap
subdirectory while dump is running.
MFC after: 1 week
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/dump')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/dump/dump.8 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dump/dump.8 b/sbin/dump/dump.8 index ac2ead3..cd01a75 100644 --- a/sbin/dump/dump.8 +++ b/sbin/dump/dump.8 @@ -232,7 +232,8 @@ takes a snapshot of the file system in the .Pa .snap directory in the root of the file system being dumped and then does a dump of the snapshot. -The snapshot is removed when the dump is complete. +The snapshot is unlinked as soon as the dump starts, and +is thus removed when the dump is complete. This option is ignored for unmounted or read-only file systems. If the .Pa .snap |
