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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Lennart Poettering 2015-06-15 11:48:24 +02:00
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<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.