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.TH FSFREEZE 8 ubase-VERSION
.SH NAME
\fBfsfreeze\fR - Suspend access to a filesystem
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBfsfreeze\fR [\fB-f\fR] [\fB-u\fR] \fImountpoint\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBfsfreeze\fR suspends and resumes access to a filesystem.
\fBfsfreeze\fR is intended to be used with hardware RAID
devices that support the creation of snapshots.
The \fImountpoint\fR argument is the pathname of the directory
where the filesystem is mounted. The filesystem must be mounted
to be frozen.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB-f\fR
Freeze the filesystem mounted at \fImountpoint\fR.
.TP
\fB-u\fR
Unfreeze the filesystem mounted at \fImountpoint\fR.
.SH BUGS
.TP
Only works for ext3/4, reiserfs, jfs and xfs.
.SH SEE ALSO
mount(8)