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authorYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2017-07-05 21:54:40 +0900
committerYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2017-07-05 21:54:40 +0900
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systemd-mount: support discovery of loop backing file
``` $ suro systemd-mount /path/to/disk.img Started unit run-media-system-disk.img.mount for mount point: /run/media/system/disk.img ``` Closes #6226.
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checker to execute a priori), and may make use of the auto-mounting logic.</para>
<para>The command takes either one or two arguments. If only one argument is specified it should refer to a block
- device containing a file system (e.g. <literal>/dev/sdb1</literal>), which is then probed for a label and other
+ device or regular file containing a file system (e.g. <literal>/dev/sdb1</literal> or
+ <literal>/path/to/disk.img</literal>). If it is a block device, which is then probed for a label and other
metadata, and is mounted to a directory whose name is generated from the label. In this mode the block device must
exist at the time of invocation of the command, so that it may be probed. If the device is found to be a removable
block device (e.g. a USB stick) an automount point instead of a regular mount point is created (i.e. the