MKCP

Section: Maintenance Commands (8) Updated: May 2008 Local index Up

NAME

mkcp - make a NILFS2 checkpoint

SYNOPSIS

mkcp [options] [device]

DESCRIPTION

mkcp is a utility for making a checkpoint or snapshot for the NILFS2 file system found in device. When device is omitted, it tries to find a NILFS2 file system from /proc/mounts.

This command is valid only for mounted NILFS2 file systems, and will fail if the device has no active mounts.

OPTIONS

-s: Create a snapshot.
-h: Display help message and exit.

AUTHOR

Koji Sato <koji@osrg.net>

AVAILABILITY

mkcp is part of the nilfs-utils package and is available from http://www.nilfs.org.

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Time: 22:01:58 GMT, April 16, 2011