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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.