Clarify documentation of '-L' command line switch: the snapshot is

unlinked as soon as the dump starts (and removed when the dump is
completed, and the dump process exits). Previous wording was confusing
because users might expect the snapshot to be visible in the .snap
subdirectory while dump is running.

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Thomas Quinot 2006-08-16 16:28:30 +00:00
parent 97a733dff0
commit 72408a122a

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@ -232,7 +232,8 @@ takes a snapshot of the file system in the
.Pa .snap
directory in the root of the file system being dumped and
then does a dump of the snapshot.
The snapshot is removed when the dump is complete.
The snapshot is unlinked as soon as the dump starts, and
is thus removed when the dump is complete.
This option is ignored for unmounted or read-only file systems.
If the
.Pa .snap