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.