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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-07-25 16:17:48 -0400
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2016-07-25 16:34:18 -0400
commite28973ee182434b59ff562c9b22823250c9fdb4c (patch)
treed4e147d1cab24575b3e5ce13d1571063b4da56c5 /man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml
parent1a0b98c43797ce96e47b110a58f0b4c55f3256f5 (diff)
parent7ba25ab5616339a8340117b85cbecd061c52d8cc (diff)
Merge pull request #3757 from poettering/efi-search
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diff --git a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml
index e890c4dce2..d26206710f 100644
--- a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml
+++ b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@
<entry>Swap</entry>
<entry>All swap partitions located on the disk the root partition is located on are enabled.</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>c12a7328-f81f-11d2-ba4b-00a0c93ec93b</entry>
+ <entry>EFI System Partition (ESP)</entry>
+ <entry>The first ESP located on the disk the root partition is located on is mounted to <filename>/boot</filename> or <filename>/efi</filename>, see below.</entry>
+ </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
@@ -150,16 +155,14 @@
<filename>/etc/crypttab</filename> with a different device mapper
device name.</para>
- <para>Mount and automount units for the EFI System Partition (ESP),
- mounting it to <filename>/boot</filename>, are generated on EFI
- systems where the boot loader communicates the used ESP to the operating
- system. Since this generator creates an automount unit, the mount will
- only be activated on-demand, when accessed. On systems where
- <filename>/boot</filename> is an explicitly configured mount
- (for example, listed in
- <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
- or where the <filename>/boot</filename> mount point is non-empty, no
- mount units are generated.</para>
+ <para>Mount and automount units for the EFI System Partition (ESP) are generated on EFI systems. The ESP is mounted
+ to <filename>/boot</filename>, unless a mount point directory <filename>/efi</filename> exists, in which case it is
+ mounted there. Since this generator creates an automount unit, the mount will only be activated on-demand, when
+ accessed. On systems where <filename>/boot</filename> (or <filename>/efi</filename> if it exists) is an explicitly
+ configured mount (for example, listed in <citerefentry
+ project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>) or where the
+ <filename>/boot</filename> (or <filename>/efi</filename>) mount point is non-empty, no mount units are
+ generated.</para>
<para>When using this generator in conjunction with btrfs file
systems, make sure to set the correct default subvolumes on them,