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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-05-02 11:14:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2016-05-02 11:17:07 +0200 |
| commit | d13febb1e0d17ce11cfa904085c91e98d336f476 (patch) | |
| tree | b7f430489da87488a25bb5e3b18a37fb61b1bc42 | |
| parent | 10c6258e326f6fcc749747334de9fc1672296719 (diff) | |
man: slightly extend the machinectl clone documentation
| -rw-r--r-- | man/machinectl.xml | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man/machinectl.xml b/man/machinectl.xml index 43a3b98840..4b7f9a0391 100644 --- a/man/machinectl.xml +++ b/man/machinectl.xml @@ -589,13 +589,11 @@ <varlistentry> <term><command>clone</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></term> - <listitem><para>Clones a container or VM image. The - arguments specify the name of the image to clone and the name - of the newly cloned image. Note that plain directory container - images are cloned into subvolume images with this command. - Note that cloning a container or VM image is optimized for - btrfs file systems, and might not be efficient on others, due - to file system limitations.</para> + <listitem><para>Clones a container or VM image. The arguments specify the name of the image to clone and the + name of the newly cloned image. Note that plain directory container images are cloned into btrfs subvolume + images with this command, if the underlying file system supports this. Note that cloning a container or VM + image is optimized for btrfs file systems, and might not be efficient on others, due to file system + limitations.</para> <para>Note that this command leaves host name, machine ID and all other settings that could identify the instance |