From 3fe22bb4b6b5faf27683ad2e231b5a69b6e63a9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 13:48:28 -0700 Subject: man: document that nspawn -x, --template= and machinectl clone leave hostname and machine id unmodified --- man/machinectl.xml | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'man/machinectl.xml') 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. + to file system limitations. + + 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf