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This software was developed for the FreeBSD Project by Marshall
Kirk McKusick and Network Associates Laboratories, the Security
Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. under DARPA/SPAWAR
contract N66001-01-C-8035 ("CBOSS"), as part of the DARPA CHATS
research program.

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.Dd February 14, 2011 .Dt MKSNAP_FFS 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm mksnap_ffs .Nd take a file system snapshot .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Ar snapshot_name .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility creates a snapshot named .Ar snapshot_name .

p The group ownership of the file is set to .Dq Li operator ; the owner of the file remains .Dq Li root . The mode of the snapshot is set to be readable by the owner or members of the .Dq Li operator group. .Sh EXAMPLES Create a snapshot of

a /usr/home file system and mount the snapshot elsewhere: d -literal -offset indent mksnap_ffs /usr/home/snapshot mdconfig -a -t vnode -o readonly -f /usr/home/snapshot mount -o ro /dev/md0 /mnt/ .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr chmod 2 , .Xr chown 8 , .Xr mdconfig 8 , .Xr mount 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm utility first appeared in .Fx 5.0 . .Sh CAVEATS The disk full situation is not handled gracefully and may lead to a system panic when no free blocks are found.

p Every filesystem can have only up to 20 active snapshots. When this limit is reached, attempting to create more snapshots fails with .Er ENOSPC , and .Nm reports that it is .Dq out of space .