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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2015-05-05 13:48:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2015-05-05 15:07:00 -0700 |
| commit | 3fe22bb4b6b5faf27683ad2e231b5a69b6e63a9e (patch) | |
| tree | 5cfad6b6a9e9cc3b1c97586b88a88cdeab142d30 /man/machinectl.xml | |
| parent | 7de7ee62c5628a3c9e116f14aca63a35d06f5331 (diff) | |
man: document that nspawn -x, --template= and machinectl clone leave hostname and machine id unmodified
Diffstat (limited to 'man/machinectl.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/machinectl.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/machinectl.xml b/man/machinectl.xml index 59a6e14d47..50cbb1bc98 100644 --- a/man/machinectl.xml +++ b/man/machinectl.xml @@ -487,7 +487,13 @@ 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> + to file system limitations.</para> + + <para>Note that this command leaves host name, machine ID and + all other settings that could identify the instance + unmodified. The original image and the cloned copy will hence + share these credentials, and it might be necessary to manually + change them in the copy.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |