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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2015-05-05 13:48:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2015-05-05 15:07:00 -0700 |
| commit | 3fe22bb4b6b5faf27683ad2e231b5a69b6e63a9e (patch) | |
| tree | 5cfad6b6a9e9cc3b1c97586b88a88cdeab142d30 | |
| parent | 7de7ee62c5628a3c9e116f14aca63a35d06f5331 (diff) | |
man: document that nspawn -x, --template= and machinectl clone leave hostname and machine id unmodified
| -rw-r--r-- | man/machinectl.xml | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd-nspawn.xml | 11 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/machinectl.xml b/man/machinectl.xml index 59a6e14d4..50cbb1bc9 100644 --- a/man/machinectl.xml +++ b/man/machinectl.xml @@ -487,7 +487,13 @@ 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> + to file system limitations.</para> + + <para>Note that this command leaves host name, machine ID and + all other settings that could identify the instance + unmodified. The original image and the cloned copy will hence + share these credentials, and it might be necessary to manually + change them in the copy.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> diff --git a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml index cb9666131..fec51df9e 100644 --- a/man/systemd-nspawn.xml +++ b/man/systemd-nspawn.xml @@ -187,7 +187,11 @@ system, so that the <literal>btrfs</literal> subvolume may be created. May not be specified together with <option>--image=</option> or - <option>--ephemeral</option>.</para></listitem> + <option>--ephemeral</option>.</para> + + <para>Note that this switch leaves host name, machine ID and + all other settings that could identify the instance + unmodified.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -201,7 +205,10 @@ This option is only supported if the root file system is <literal>btrfs</literal>. May not be specified together with <option>--image=</option> or - <option>--template=</option>.</para></listitem> + <option>--template=</option>.</para> + <para>Note that this switch leaves host name, machine ID and + all other settings that could identify the instance + unmodified.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |