From c6355b313e653bc33efe0ed7c047028bb5c42786 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:48:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man: clarify overriding semantics of systemd-gpt-auto-generator Specifically: /etc/fstab overrides the units itself, but not the deps. See #168. --- man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml index 16ff100d73..d3e02d6f7b 100644 --- a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml +++ b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml @@ -64,13 +64,16 @@ /home, /srv 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 - Discoverable + the Discoverable Partitions Specification. Note that this generator has no - effect on non-GPT systems, on systems where the units are - explicitly configured (for example, listed in - fstab5), - or where the mount points are non-empty. + 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 + fstab5), + the units this generator creates are overriden, but additional + automatic dependencies might be created. This generator will only look for root partitions on the same physical disk the EFI System Partition (ESP) is located on.