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      1 .Dd March 26, 2016
      2 .Dt FSFREEZE 8
      3 .Os ubase
      4 .Sh NAME
      5 .Nm fsfreeze
      6 .Nd suspend access to a filesystem
      7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
      8 .Nm
      9 .Po Fl f | Fl u Pc
     10 .Ar mountpoint
     11 .Sh DESCRIPTION
     12 .Nm
     13 suspends and resumes access to a filesystem.
     14 .Nm
     15 is intended to be used with hardware RAID devices that support the creation
     16 of snapshots.
     17 The
     18 .Ar mountpoint
     19 argument is the pathname of the directory where the filesystem is mounted.
     20 The filesystem must be mounted to be frozen.
     21 .Sh OPTIONS
     22 .Bl -tag -width Ds
     23 .It Fl f
     24 Freeze the filesystem mounted at
     25 .Ar mountpoint .
     26 .It Fl u
     27 Unfreeze the filesystem mounted at
     28 .Ar mountpoint .
     29 .El
     30 .Sh SEE ALSO
     31 .Xr mount 8
     32 .Sh BUGS
     33 Only works for ext3/4, reiserfs, jfs and xfs.