man: slightly extend the machinectl clone documentation

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Lennart Poettering 2016-05-02 11:14:46 +02:00
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<term><command>clone</command> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></term>
<listitem><para>Clones a container or VM image. The
arguments specify the name of the image to clone and the name
of the newly cloned image. Note that plain directory container
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.</para>
<listitem><para>Clones a container or VM image. The arguments specify the name of the image to clone and the
name of the newly cloned image. Note that plain directory container images are cloned into btrfs subvolume
images with this command, if the underlying file system supports this. 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.</para>
<para>Note that this command leaves host name, machine ID and
all other settings that could identify the instance