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diff --git a/man/systemd.automount.xml b/man/systemd.automount.xml index 513f939dd2..253ffebe3f 100644 --- a/man/systemd.automount.xml +++ b/man/systemd.automount.xml @@ -26,10 +26,9 @@ <refsect1> <title>Description</title> - <para>A unit configuration file whose name ends in - <literal>.automount</literal> encodes information about a file - system automount point controlled and supervised by - systemd.</para> + <para>A unit configuration file whose name ends in <literal>.automount</literal> encodes information + about a file system automount point controlled and supervised by systemd. Automount units may be used to + implement on-demand mounting as well as parallelized mounting of file systems.</para> <para>This man page lists the configuration options specific to this unit type. See @@ -55,9 +54,6 @@ accesses <filename>/home/lennart</filename> the mount unit <filename>home-lennart.mount</filename> will be activated.</para> - <para>Automount units may be used to implement on-demand mounting - as well as parallelized mounting of file systems.</para> - <para>Note that automount units are separate from the mount itself, so you should not set <varname>After=</varname> or <varname>Requires=</varname> for mount dependencies here. For example, you should not set @@ -65,8 +61,8 @@ filesystems. Doing so may result in an ordering cycle.</para> <para>Note that automount support on Linux is privileged, automount units are hence only available in the - system service manager (and root's user service manager), but not in unprivileged user's service - manager.</para> + system service manager (and root's user service manager), but not in unprivileged users' service + managers.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> @@ -78,12 +74,12 @@ <para>The following dependencies are implicitly added:</para> <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para>If an automount unit is beneath another mount unit in the - file system hierarchy, both a requirement and an ordering - dependency between both units are created automatically.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>If an automount unit is beneath another mount unit in the file system hierarchy, a + requirement and ordering dependencies are created to the on the unit higher in the hierarchy. + </para></listitem> - <listitem><para>An implicit <varname>Before=</varname> dependency is created - between an automount unit and the mount unit it activates.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>An implicit <varname>Before=</varname> dependency is created between an automount + unit and the mount unit it activates.</para></listitem> </itemizedlist> </refsect2> |