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| author | Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com> | 2024-09-11 17:11:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com> | 2024-09-11 18:45:05 +0200 |
| commit | c64ddefd5ce4ffaa286d2a5fe2c3d10d68279053 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c3e59cbab6c411f2029600e69e460a1f84d610d /man | |
| parent | repart: Add missing parameter comment (diff) | |
| download | systemd-c64ddefd5ce4ffaa286d2a5fe2c3d10d68279053.tar.xz systemd-c64ddefd5ce4ffaa286d2a5fe2c3d10d68279053.zip | |
repart: Add MakeSymlinks=
Similar to MakeDirectories=, but creates symlinks in the filesystem.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/repart.d.xml | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/repart.d.xml b/man/repart.d.xml index a3c42e15e0..3ffb6aba02 100644 --- a/man/repart.d.xml +++ b/man/repart.d.xml @@ -538,6 +538,30 @@ </varlistentry> <varlistentry> + <term><varname>MakeSymlinks=</varname></term> + + <listitem><para>Takes one or more arguments, separated by whitespace, each declaring a symlink to + create within the new file system. Each argument is a pair of symlink source and target paths, + separated by a colon. This option may be used more than once to create multiple symlinks. When + <varname>CopyFiles=</varname> and <varname>MakeSymlinks=</varname> are used together the former is + applied first.</para> + + <para>The primary use case for this option is to create symlinks that need to exist before + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> + is executed. For example, when using + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-confext</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, + this setting can be used to create symlinks in <filename>/var/lib/extensions.mutable</filename> to + redirect writes to mutable confexts to a custom location.</para> + + <para>Consider using + <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-tmpfiles</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> + with its <option>--image=</option> option to pre-create other symlinks (as well as other inodes) with + fine-grained control of ownership, access modes and other file attributes.</para> + + <xi:include href="version-info.xml" xpointer="v257"/></listitem> + </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry> <term><varname>Subvolumes=</varname></term> <listitem><para>Takes one or more absolute paths, separated by whitespace, each declaring a directory |