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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2022-11-30 17:04:14 +0100
committerDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2022-12-01 12:14:35 +0100
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repart: Ignore copy failures for unsupported file types
e.g. vfat doesn't support symlinks, sockets, fifos, etc so let's ignore any copy failures related to unsupported file types when populating filesystems.
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<para>The copy operation is executed before the file system is registered in the partition table,
thus ensuring that a file system populated this way only ever exists fully initialized.</para>
+ <para>Note that <varname>CopyFiles=</varname> will skip copying files that aren't supported by the
+ target filesystem (e.g symlinks, fifos, sockets and devices on vfat). When an unsupported file type
+ is encountered, repart will skip copying this file and write a log message about it.</para>
+
<para>This option cannot be combined with <varname>CopyBlocks=</varname>.</para>
<para>When <command>systemd-repart</command> is invoked with the <option>--image=</option> or