Note that you'll likely need a recent version of
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gengetopt/ (gnu gengetopt) to compile dss.
+Optionally, type
+
+ make man
+
+to create the man page of dss. This invokes help2man so make sure
+that help2man is installed on your system. Note that the man page is
+just the nroff variant of the output of "dss --detailed-help".
+
dss is known to compile on Linux, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD and
NetBSD. However, it is run-tested only on Linux.
If this flag is not given dss removes redundant and outdated
snapshots automatically.
- Otherwise, this feature is deactivated so that snapshots
- are only being removed in case disk space or inode ratio
+ Otherwise, this feature is deactivated so that snapshots are
+ only being removed in case disk space or number of free inodes
becomes low. Use this flag if the file system containing the
destination directory is used for snapshots only.
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