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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2021-11-16 16:55:47 +0100
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-11-16 16:55:47 +0100
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parentMerge pull request #21386 from keszybz/binfmt-later (diff)
parentman: document fs types known to makefs (diff)
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Merge pull request #21275 from keszybz/makefs-quiet
Makefs quiet output
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diff --git a/man/systemd-makefs@.service.xml b/man/systemd-makefs@.service.xml
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systems and swap devices, and after checking that the block device does not already
contain a file system or other content, it will execute binaries specific to
each filesystem type (<filename>/sbin/mkfs.<replaceable>type</replaceable></filename>
- or <filename>/sbin/mkswap</filename>).</para>
+ or <filename>/sbin/mkswap</filename>). For certain file system types (currently
+ ext2/ext3/<citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>ext4</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry project='url'><refentrytitle url='https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Manpage/btrfs(5)'>btrfs</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry project='man-pages'><refentrytitle>xfs</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+ f2fs, vfat) and for swap devices, it will configure reasonable defaults and set
+ the file system label and UUID based on the device name.</para>
<para><filename>systemd-growfs</filename> knows very little about specific file
systems and swap devices, and will instruct the kernel to grow the mounted