zfs-diff(8)

ZFS-DIFF(8) System Manager’s Manual ZFS-DIFF(8)

NAME

zfs-diff — show difference between ZFS snapshots

SYNOPSIS

zfs diff [-FHth] snapshot snapshot|filesystem

DESCRIPTION

Display the difference between a snapshot of a given filesystem and another snapshot of that filesystem from a later time or the current contents of the filesystem. The first column is a character indicating the type of change, the other columns indicate pathname, new pathname (in case of rename), change in link count, and optionally file type and/or change time. The types of change are:

-

The path has been removed

+

The path has been created

M

The path has been modified

R

The path has been renamed

-F

Display an indication of the type of file, in a manner similar to the -F option of ls(1).

B

Block device

C

Character device

/

Directory

>

Door

|

Named pipe

@

Symbolic link

P

Event port

=

Socket

F

Regular file

-H

Give more parsable tab-separated output, without header lines and without arrows.

-t

Display the path’s inode change time as the first column of output.

-h

Do not \0ooo-escape non-ASCII paths.

SEE ALSO

zfs-snapshot(8) OpenZFS May 29, 2021 ZFS-DIFF(8)