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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-05-02 11:14:46 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-05-02 11:17:07 +0200
commitd13febb1e0d17ce11cfa904085c91e98d336f476 (patch)
treeb7f430489da87488a25bb5e3b18a37fb61b1bc42
parent10c6258e326f6fcc749747334de9fc1672296719 (diff)
man: slightly extend the machinectl clone documentation
-rw-r--r--man/machinectl.xml12
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