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1 .Dd March 26, 2016
2 .Dt FSFREEZE 8
3 .Os ubase
4 .Sh NAME
5 .Nm fsfreeze
6 .Nd suspend access to a filesystem
7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
8 .Nm
9 .Po Fl f | Fl u Pc
10 .Ar mountpoint
11 .Sh DESCRIPTION
12 .Nm
13 suspends and resumes access to a filesystem.
14 .Nm
15 is intended to be used with hardware RAID devices that support the creation
16 of snapshots.
17 The
18 .Ar mountpoint
19 argument is the pathname of the directory where the filesystem is mounted.
20 The filesystem must be mounted to be frozen.
21 .Sh OPTIONS
22 .Bl -tag -width Ds
23 .It Fl f
24 Freeze the filesystem mounted at
25 .Ar mountpoint .
26 .It Fl u
27 Unfreeze the filesystem mounted at
28 .Ar mountpoint .
29 .El
30 .Sh SEE ALSO
31 .Xr mount 8
32 .Sh BUGS
33 Only works for ext3/4, reiserfs, jfs and xfs.