fsfreeze.8 (699B)
1 .TH FSFREEZE 8 ubase-VERSION 2 .SH NAME 3 \fBfsfreeze\fR - Suspend access to a filesystem 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 \fBfsfreeze\fR [\fB-f\fR] [\fB-u\fR] \fImountpoint\fR 6 .SH DESCRIPTION 7 \fBfsfreeze\fR suspends and resumes access to a filesystem. 8 \fBfsfreeze\fR is intended to be used with hardware RAID 9 devices that support the creation of snapshots. 10 The \fImountpoint\fR argument is the pathname of the directory 11 where the filesystem is mounted. The filesystem must be mounted 12 to be frozen. 13 .SH OPTIONS 14 .TP 15 \fB-f\fR 16 Freeze the filesystem mounted at \fImountpoint\fR. 17 .TP 18 \fB-u\fR 19 Unfreeze the filesystem mounted at \fImountpoint\fR. 20 .SH BUGS 21 .TP 22 Only works for ext3/4, reiserfs, jfs and xfs. 23 .SH SEE ALSO 24 mount(8)