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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-05-05 13:48:28 -0700
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-05-05 15:07:00 -0700
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man: document that nspawn -x, --template= and machinectl clone leave hostname and machine id unmodified
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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>
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