diff --git a/man/systemd.automount.xml b/man/systemd.automount.xml index da35a7d26b..628a6615e6 100644 --- a/man/systemd.automount.xml +++ b/man/systemd.automount.xml @@ -26,10 +26,9 @@ Description - A unit configuration file whose name ends in - .automount encodes information about a file - system automount point controlled and supervised by - systemd. + A unit configuration file whose name ends in .automount 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. This man page lists the configuration options specific to this unit type. See @@ -55,9 +54,6 @@ accesses /home/lennart the mount unit home-lennart.mount will be activated. - Automount units may be used to implement on-demand mounting - as well as parallelized mounting of file systems. - Note that automount units are separate from the mount itself, so you should not set After= or Requires= for mount dependencies here. For example, you should not set @@ -65,8 +61,8 @@ filesystems. Doing so may result in an ordering cycle. 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. + system service manager (and root's user service manager), but not in unprivileged users' service + managers. @@ -78,12 +74,12 @@ The following dependencies are implicitly added: - 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. + 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. + - An implicit Before= dependency is created - between an automount unit and the mount unit it activates. + An implicit Before= dependency is created between an automount + unit and the mount unit it activates.