From 129ea078cd16b768a1100b497282fd9359e8dfea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirk McKusick Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2023 22:02:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] FFS/UFS snapshots: improve documentation for removal (deletion) and unlinking. Clarification of the size of the snapshot file. Suggested by: Matteo Riondato PR: 266358 MFC after: 2 weeks Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38817 --- sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 b/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 index 6274e93a4adb..2bba68150636 100644 --- a/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 +++ b/sbin/mksnap_ffs/mksnap_ffs.8 @@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ Snapshots can be listed using the command. .Pp After a snapshot is taken it appears as a file. -The file is the size of the file system from which it was taken. +The size of the snapshot file is equal to the size of the +file system from which it was taken. It can be moved, renamed or deleted (which removes the snapshot). .Pp The group ownership of the file is set to