fsfreeze.8 (685B)
- .Dd March 26, 2016
- .Dt FSFREEZE 8
- .Os ubase
- .Sh NAME
- .Nm fsfreeze
- .Nd suspend access to a filesystem
- .Sh SYNOPSIS
- .Nm
- .Po Fl f | Fl u Pc
- .Ar mountpoint
- .Sh DESCRIPTION
- .Nm
- suspends and resumes access to a filesystem.
- .Nm
- is intended to be used with hardware RAID devices that support the creation
- of snapshots.
- The
- .Ar mountpoint
- argument is the pathname of the directory where the filesystem is mounted.
- The filesystem must be mounted to be frozen.
- .Sh OPTIONS
- .Bl -tag -width Ds
- .It Fl f
- Freeze the filesystem mounted at
- .Ar mountpoint .
- .It Fl u
- Unfreeze the filesystem mounted at
- .Ar mountpoint .
- .El
- .Sh SEE ALSO
- .Xr mount 8
- .Sh BUGS
- Only works for ext3/4, reiserfs, jfs and xfs.