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diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8 index 963454b..209fdbc 100644 --- a/sbin/mount/mount.8 +++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8 @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ You may create up to 20 snapshots per filesystem. Active snapshots are recorded in the superblock, so they persist across unmount and remount operations and across system reboots. When you are done with a snapshot, it can be removed with the -.Xr rm +.Xr rm 1 command. Snapshots may be removed in any order, however you may not get back all the space contained in the snapshot as another snapshot may claim some of the blocks @@ -202,23 +202,29 @@ The unlink command makes an exception for snapshot files in that it allows them to be removed even though they have the schg flag set, so it is not necessary to clear the schg flag before removing a snapshot file. .Pp -Once you have taken a snapshot, there are three interesting things that you can +Once you have taken a snapshot, there are three interesting things that you can do with it: .Pp .Bl -enum -compact .It -Run fsck on the snapshot file. +Run +.Xr fsck 8 +on the snapshot file. Assuming that the filesystem was clean when it was mounted, you should always get a clean (and unchanging) result from running fsck on the snapshot. This is essentially what the background fsck process does. .Pp .It -Run dump on the snapshot. +Run +.Xr dump 8 +on the snapshot. You will get a dump that is consistent with the filesystem as of the timestamp of the snapshot. Note that -.Xr dump -has not yet been changed to set the dumpdates file correctly, so do not use this +.Xr dump 8 +has not yet been changed to set the +.Pa /etc/dumpdates +file correctly, so do not use this feature in production until that fix is made. .Pp .It |
