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author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-03-06 04:50:19 +0100 |
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committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-03-06 05:04:51 +0100 |
commit | 9788205f453178fd0b349d44aac76e0cbf8633dc (patch) | |
tree | 6faacc197b262679edaf35a02fccc4f27ea7f7ab /man | |
parent | 1af7211984a8dba3c5ba40fae794c4c55f5e6bd3 (diff) |
man: bring gpt-auto-generator up to date
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
-rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml | 84 |
1 files changed, 67 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml index 95c0c35046..75313994d7 100644 --- a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml +++ b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ <refnamediv> <refname>systemd-gpt-auto-generator</refname> <refpurpose>Generator for automatically discovering - and mounting <filename>/home</filename> as well as + and mounting <filename>/home</filename> and <filename>/srv</filename>, as well as discovering and enabling swap partitions, based on GPT partition type GUIDs.</refpurpose> </refnamediv> @@ -56,16 +56,16 @@ <title>Description</title> <para><filename>systemd-gpt-auto-generator</filename> - is a generator that automatically discovers - <filename>/home</filename> and swap partitions and - creates mount and swap units for them, based on the - the partition type GUIDs of GUID partition tables - (GPT). Note that this generator will execute no - operation on non-GPT systems, on systems where the + is a unit generator that automatically discovers + <filename>/home</filename>, <filename>/srv</filename> + and swap partitions and creates mount and swap units + for them, based on the the partition type GUIDs of + GUID partition tables (GPT). Note that this generator + has no effect on non-GPT systems, on systems where the units are explicitly configured (for example, listed in - <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>) - or where the mount point is non-empty.</para> + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>), + or where the mount points are non-empty.</para> <para>This generator will only look for partitions on the same physical disk the root file system is stored @@ -73,16 +73,63 @@ root file system is distributed on multiple disks, for example via btrfs RAID.</para> - <para>This generator is useful for centralizing file - system configuration in the partition table and making - manual configuration in - <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> or suchlike + <para><filename>systemd-gpt-auto-generator</filename> + is useful for centralizing file system configuration + in the partition table and making manual configuration + in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> or suchlike unnecessary.</para> - <para>This generator looks for swap partitions using - GPT type 0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e50933c84b4f4f. It looks - for <filename>/home</filename> partitions using GPT - type 933ac7e1-2eb4-4f13-b8440e14e2aef915.</para> + <para>This generator looks for the partitions based on + their partition type GUID. The following partition + type GUIDs are identified:</para> + + <table> + <title>Partition Type GUIDs</title> + <tgroup cols='3' align='left' colsep='1' rowsep='1'> + <colspec colname="guid" /> + <colspec colname="location" /> + <colspec colname="explanation" /> + <thead> + <row> + <entry>Partition Type GUID</entry> + <entry>Location</entry> + <entry>Explanation</entry> + </row> + </thead> + <tbody> + <row> + <entry>0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e50933c84b4f4f</entry> + <entry>Swap</entry> + <entry>All swap partitions are enabled.</entry> + </row> + <row> + <entry>933ac7e1-2eb4-4f13-b8440e14e2aef915</entry> + <entry><filename>/home</filename></entry> + <entry>The first home partition on the disk is mounted to <filename>/home</filename>.</entry> + </row> + <row> + <entry>3b8f8425-20e0-4f3b-907f1a25a76f98e8</entry> + <entry><filename>/srv</filename></entry> + <entry>The first server data partition on the disk is mounted to <filename>/srv</filename>.</entry> + </row> + </tbody> + </tgroup> + </table> + + <para>The <filename>/home</filename> and + <filename>/srv</filename> partitions may be encrypted + in LUKS format. In this case a device mapper device is + set up under the names + <filename>/dev/mapper/home</filename> and + <filename>/dev/mapper/srv</filename>. Note that this + might create conflicts if the same partition is listed + in <filename>/etc/crypttab</filename> with a different + device mapper device name.</para> + + <para>Also note that + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-efi-boot-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> + will mount the EFI System Partition to + <filename>/boot</filename> is not otherwise mounted.</para> <para><filename>systemd-gpt-auto-generator</filename> implements the <ulink @@ -96,7 +143,10 @@ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.swap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-fstab-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-efi-boot-generator</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-cryptsetup@.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cryptsetup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry><refentrytitle>fstab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> </para> </refsect1> |