diff --git a/man/systemd.automount.xml b/man/systemd.automount.xml
index 93bae2a6dc2..a43dc981bdf 100644
--- a/man/systemd.automount.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.automount.xml
@@ -66,14 +66,13 @@
[Install] sections. The automount specific configuration options
are configured in the [Automount] section.
- Automount units must be named after the automount
- directories they control. Example: the automount point
- /home/lennart must be
- configured in a unit file
- home-lennart.automount. For details about the
- escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name
- see
- systemd.unit5.
+ Automount units must be named after the automount directories they control. Example: the automount point
+ /home/lennart must be configured in a unit file
+ home-lennart.automount. For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system
+ path to a unit name see
+ systemd.unit5. Note that
+ automount units cannot be templated, nor is it possible to add multiple names to an automount unit by creating
+ additional symlinks to its unit file.
For each automount unit file a matching mount unit file (see
systemd.mount5
diff --git a/man/systemd.mount.xml b/man/systemd.mount.xml
index f116782b40f..bf56a49e589 100644
--- a/man/systemd.mount.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.mount.xml
@@ -82,14 +82,12 @@
will refuse options that are not listed in
/etc/fstab if it is not run as UID 0.
- Mount units must be named after the mount point directories
- they control. Example: the mount point
- /home/lennart must be
- configured in a unit file home-lennart.mount.
- For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system
- path to a unit name, see
- systemd.unit5.
- Note that mount units cannot be templated.
+ Mount units must be named after the mount point directories they control. Example: the mount point /home/lennart must be configured in a unit file home-lennart.mount.
+ For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name, see
+ systemd.unit5. Note that mount
+ units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add multiple names to a mount unit by creating additional symlinks to
+ it.
Optionally, a mount unit may be accompanied by an automount
unit, to allow on-demand or parallelized mounting. See
diff --git a/man/systemd.slice.xml b/man/systemd.slice.xml
index 16247628afc..eee98d99ee0 100644
--- a/man/systemd.slice.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.slice.xml
@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@
the root slice -.slice.
+ Note that slice units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add multiple names to a slice unit by creating
+ additional symlinks to it.
+
By default, service and scope units are placed in
system.slice, virtual machines and containers
registered with
diff --git a/man/systemd.swap.xml b/man/systemd.swap.xml
index 6fc4c7bf13e..cf4e1ba8398 100644
--- a/man/systemd.swap.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.swap.xml
@@ -78,13 +78,12 @@
which configure resource control settings for these processes of the
unit.
- Swap units must be named after the devices
- or files they control. Example: the swap device
- /dev/sda5 must be configured in a
- unit file dev-sda5.swap. For details about
- the escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit
- name, see
- systemd.unit5.
+ Swap units must be named after the devices or files they control. Example: the swap device /dev/sda5 must be configured in a unit file dev-sda5.swap. For
+ details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name, see
+ systemd.unit5. Note that swap
+ units cannot be templated, nor is possible to add multiple names to a swap unit by creating additional symlinks to
+ it.
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml
index 79933011679..69f56e3f0ae 100644
--- a/man/systemd.unit.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml
@@ -1102,13 +1102,12 @@
Alias=
- A space-separated list of additional names
- this unit shall be installed under. The names listed here must
- have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This
- option may be specified more than once, in which case all
- listed names are used. At installation time,
- systemctl enable will create symlinks from
- these names to the unit filename.
+ A space-separated list of additional names this unit shall be installed under. The names listed
+ here must have the same suffix (i.e. type) as the unit file name. This option may be specified more than once,
+ in which case all listed names are used. At installation time, systemctl enable will create
+ symlinks from these names to the unit filename. Note that not all unit types support such alias names, and this
+ setting is not supported for them. Specifically, mount, slice, swap, and automount units do not support
+ aliasing.