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authorDaan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>2023-01-24 11:52:55 +0100
committerLuca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>2023-01-24 12:19:48 +0000
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repart: Mention broken XFS protofile format
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in a user namespace with the current user mapped to the root user to make sure the files and
directories in the image are owned by the root user.</para>
+ <para>Note that when populating XFS filesystems with <command>systemd-repart</command> and loop
+ devices are not available, populating XFS filesystems with files containing spaces, tabs or newlines
+ will fail due to limitations of mkfs.xfs's protofile format.</para>
+
<para>This option cannot be combined with <varname>CopyBlocks=</varname>.</para>
<para>When