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Also, for chcpu, the options -c, -d, -e and -g are mutually exclusive, and for the mode argument the option -p is not optional. For ldattach, use the standard options separator ", " instead of the unusual " | ". And add the missing --version to several of the pages. Besides, improve the wording and the consistency of the spacing. Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
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.\" -*- nroff -*-
-.TH FSFREEZE 8 "May 2010" "util-linux" "System Administration"
+.TH FSFREEZE 8 "July 2014" "util-linux" "System Administration"
.SH NAME
-fsfreeze \- suspend access to a filesystem (Linux Ext3/4, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS)
+fsfreeze \- suspend access to a filesystem (Ext3/4, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS)
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B fsfreeze
.BR \--freeze | \--unfreeze
@@ -9,67 +9,66 @@ fsfreeze \- suspend access to a filesystem (Linux Ext3/4, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS)
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B fsfreeze
-suspends and resumes access to an filesystem
+suspends or resumes access to a filesystem.
.PP
.B fsfreeze
-halts new access to the filesystem and creates a stable image on disk.
+halts any new access to the filesystem and creates a stable image on disk.
.B fsfreeze
-is intended to be used with hardware RAID devices that support the creation
+is intended to be used with hardware RAID devices that support the creation
of snapshots.
.PP
.B fsfreeze
is unnecessary for
.B device-mapper
-devices. The device-mapper (and LVM)
-automatically freezes filesystem on the device when a snapshot creation is requested.
+devices. The device-mapper (and LVM) automatically freezes a filesystem
+on the device when a snapshot creation is requested.
For more details see the
.BR dmsetup (8)
man page.
.PP
The
-.I mount-point
+.I mountpoint
argument is the pathname of the directory where the filesystem
is mounted.
The filesystem must be mounted to be frozen (see
.BR mount (8)).
.PP
-Note that access time updates are also suspends if the filesystem is mounted with
-the traditional atime semantics (mount option strictatime, for more details see
+Note that access-time updates are also suspended if the filesystem is mounted with
+the traditional atime behavior (mount option \fBstrictatime\fR, for more details see
.BR mount (8)).
.SH OPTIONS
-.IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP"
-Display help text and exit.
-.IP "\fB\-f, \-\-freeze\fP"
+.TP
+.BR \-f , " \-\-freeze"
This option requests the specified a filesystem to be frozen from new
modifications. When this is selected, all ongoing transactions in the
filesystem are allowed to complete, new write system calls are halted, other
calls which modify the filesystem are halted, and all dirty data, metadata, and
log information are written to disk. Any process attempting to write to the
frozen filesystem will block waiting for the filesystem to be unfrozen.
-
+.sp
Note that even after freezing, the on-disk filesystem can contain
information on files that are still in the process of unlinking.
These files will not be unlinked until the filesystem is unfrozen
or a clean mount of the snapshot is complete.
-.IP "\fB\-u, \-\-unfreeze\fP
+.TP
+.BR \-u , " \-\-unfreeze"
This option is used to un-freeze the filesystem and allow operations to
continue. Any filesystem modifications that were blocked by the freeze are
unblocked and allowed to complete.
-.IP "\fB\-V, \-\-version\fP"
+.TP
+.BR \-V , " \-\-version"
Display version information and exit.
+.TP
+.BR \-h , " \-\-help"
+Display help text and exit.
.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Written by Hajime Taira.
.SH NOTES
.PP
-This man page based on xfs_freeze.
-One of
-.B \-f
-or
-.B \-u
-must be supplied to
-.BR fsfreeze .
+This man page is based on
+.BR xfs_freeze (8).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mount (8)
.SH AVAILABILITY