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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-06-15 11:48:24 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2015-06-15 11:49:26 +0200
commitc6355b313e653bc33efe0ed7c047028bb5c42786 (patch)
tree11391cdc149e029adb87cb4687371a632f3aa918 /man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml
parent5feece76fb55444f34cd8eb5394d0f079dab54de (diff)
man: clarify overriding semantics of systemd-gpt-auto-generator
Specifically: /etc/fstab overrides the units itself, but not the deps. See #168.
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diff --git a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml
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@@ -64,13 +64,16 @@
<filename>/home</filename>, <filename>/srv</filename> and swap
partitions and creates mount and swap units for them, based on the
partition type GUIDs of GUID partition tables (GPT). It implements
- the
- <ulink url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/">Discoverable
+ the <ulink
+ url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/">Discoverable
Partitions Specification</ulink>. Note that this generator has no
- effect on non-GPT systems, on systems where the units are
- explicitly configured (for example, listed in
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>),
- or where the mount points are non-empty.</para>
+ effect on non-GPT systems, or where the directories under the
+ mount points are already non-empty. Also, on systems where the
+ units are explicitly configured (for example, listed in
+ <citerefentry
+ project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>),
+ the units this generator creates are overriden, but additional
+ automatic dependencies might be created.</para>
<para>This generator will only look for root partitions on the
same physical disk the EFI System Partition (ESP) is located on.