snapinfo(8)

snapinfo8

Show snapshot location on ufs file systems

Usage

snapinfo [-v] -a

snapinfo [-v] mountpoint

Overview

The snapinfo utility searches and displays the location of snapshots on UFS file systems.

Currently it works only on mounted file systems. It can either search one file system or all of them.

The following options are available:

-a

Search for snapshots on all mounted UFS file systems.

-v

Verbose mode.

mountpoint

Search the file system mounted on this mountpoint.

Releases

49 releases since FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE; the text changed 34 times.

  1. 5.5
  2. 6.1–6.3
  3. 6.4
  4. 7.0
  5. 7.1
  6. 7.2
  7. 7.3
  8. 7.4
  9. 8.0
  10. 8.1
  11. 8.2
  12. 8.3
  13. 8.4
  14. 9.0
  15. 9.1
  16. 9.2
  17. 9.3
  18. 10.0
  19. 10.1
  20. 10.2
  21. 10.3
  22. 10.4
  23. 11.0
  24. 11.1
  25. 11.2
  26. 11.3
  27. 11.4
  28. 12.0
  29. 12.1
  30. 12.2
  31. 12.3
  32. 12.4
  33. 13.0–13.2
  34. 13.3–14.5
  35. 15.0–16.0

History

The snapinfo utility first appeared in FreeBSD 6.1.

Authors

Mark Santcroos ⟨[email protected]⟩

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