CHCP

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: Apr 2014
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NAME

chcp - change mode of NILFS2 checkpoints

SYNOPSIS

chcp [options] cp | ss [device] checkpoint-number ...

DESCRIPTION

chcp is a utility to change the mode of the given checkpoints for the NILFS2 file system found in device. chcp changes checkpoints to snapshots, or vice versa. The target checkpoints are specified with one or more checkpoint numbers. 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

-h, --help: Display help message and exit.
-V, --version: Display version and exit.

AUTHOR

Koji Sato

AVAILABILITY

chcp is part of the nilfs-utils package and is available from https://nilfs.sourceforge.io.