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                 container.</para>
 
                 <para>Use a tool like
-                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>yum</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                or
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>yum</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>debootstrap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                or
+                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pacman</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 to set up an OS directory tree suitable as file system
                 hierarchy for <command>systemd-nspawn</command>
                 containers.</para>
 
                 <variablelist>
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--help</option></term>
                                 <term><option>-h</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--help</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Prints a short help
                                 text and exits.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--directory=</option></term>
                                 <term><option>-D</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--directory=</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Directory to use as
                                 file system root for the namespace
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--boot</option></term>
                                 <term><option>-b</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--boot</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Automatically search
                                 for an init binary and invoke it
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--user=</option></term>
                                 <term><option>-u</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--user=</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Run the command
                                 under specified user, create home
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--controllers=</option></term>
                                 <term><option>-C</option></term>
+                                <term><option>--controllers=</option></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Makes the container appear in
                                 other hierarchies than the name=systemd:/ one.
 
         </refsect1>
 
+        <refsect1>
+                <title>Example 3</title>
+
+                <programlisting># pacstrap -c -d ~/arch-tree/ base
+# systemd-nspawn -bD ~/arch-tree/</programlisting>
+
+                <para>This installs a mimimal Arch Linux distribution into
+                the directory <filename>~/arch-tree/</filename> and then
+                boots an OS in a namespace container in it.</para>
+        </refsect1>
+
         <refsect1>
                 <title>Exit status</title>
 
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>chroot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
                         <citerefentry><refentrytitle>yum</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>debootstrap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>debootstrap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>pacman</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
                 </para>
         </refsect1>