From 9788205f453178fd0b349d44aac76e0cbf8633dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 04:50:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man: bring gpt-auto-generator up to date --- man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml | 84 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml index 95c0c3504..75313994d 100644 --- a/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml +++ b/man/systemd-gpt-auto-generator.xml @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ systemd-gpt-auto-generator Generator for automatically discovering - and mounting /home as well as + and mounting /home and /srv, as well as discovering and enabling swap partitions, based on GPT partition type GUIDs. @@ -56,16 +56,16 @@ Description systemd-gpt-auto-generator - is a generator that automatically discovers - /home 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 + /home, /srv + 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 - fstab5) - or where the mount point is non-empty. + fstab5), + or where the mount points are non-empty. 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. - This generator is useful for centralizing file - system configuration in the partition table and making - manual configuration in - /etc/fstab or suchlike + systemd-gpt-auto-generator + is useful for centralizing file system configuration + in the partition table and making manual configuration + in /etc/fstab or suchlike unnecessary. - This generator looks for swap partitions using - GPT type 0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e50933c84b4f4f. It looks - for /home partitions using GPT - type 933ac7e1-2eb4-4f13-b8440e14e2aef915. + This generator looks for the partitions based on + their partition type GUID. The following partition + type GUIDs are identified: + + + Partition Type GUIDs + + + + + + + Partition Type GUID + Location + Explanation + + + + + 0657fd6d-a4ab-43c4-84e50933c84b4f4f + Swap + All swap partitions are enabled. + + + 933ac7e1-2eb4-4f13-b8440e14e2aef915 + /home + The first home partition on the disk is mounted to /home. + + + 3b8f8425-20e0-4f3b-907f1a25a76f98e8 + /srv + The first server data partition on the disk is mounted to /srv. + + + +
+ + The /home and + /srv partitions may be encrypted + in LUKS format. In this case a device mapper device is + set up under the names + /dev/mapper/home and + /dev/mapper/srv. Note that this + might create conflicts if the same partition is listed + in /etc/crypttab with a different + device mapper device name. + + Also note that + systemd-efi-boot-generator8 + will mount the EFI System Partition to + /boot is not otherwise mounted. systemd-gpt-auto-generator implements the systemd1, systemd.mount5, systemd.swap5, + systemd-fstab-generator8, systemd-efi-boot-generator8, + systemd-cryptsetup@.service8, + cryptsetup8, fstab5 -- 2.30.2