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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>2008-07-14 10:07:03 +0200
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>2011-03-09 17:48:00 +0100
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Defaulting now to aufs if no union= parameter is given.
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-rw-r--r--manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt14
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diff --git a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
index 0b1a4bf..eb2e302 100644
--- a/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
+++ b/manpages/live-initramfs.en.7.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ This includes the Debian Live isos, netboot tarballs, and usb stick images.
At boot time it will look for a (read-only) media containing a "/live"
directory where a root filesystems (often a compressed filesystem image like
squashfs) is stored. If found, it will create a writable environment, using
-unionfs, for Debian like systems to boot from.
+aufs, for Debian like systems to boot from.
You probably do not want to install this package onto a non-live system,
although it will do no harm.
@@ -252,10 +252,10 @@ Adding this parameter, live-initramfs will try to copy the whole read-only media
to the computer's RAM before mounting the root filesystem. This could need a lot
of ram, according to the space used by the read-only media.
- union=**unionfs**|**aufs**::
+ union=**aufs**|**unionfs**::
-By default, live-initramfs uses unionfs. With this parameter, you can switch to
-aufs.
+By default, live-initramfs uses aufs. With this parameter, you can switch to
+unionfs.
utc=**yes**|**no**::
@@ -283,9 +283,9 @@ Some variables can be configured via this config file (inside the live system).
This optional file (inside the live media) contains a list of white-space or
carriage-return-separated file names corresponding to disk images in the "/live"
directory. If this file exists, only images listed here will be merged into the
-root unionfs, and they will be loaded in the order listed here. The first entry
-in this file will be the "lowest" point in the unionfs, and the last file in
-this list will be on the "top" of the unionfs, directly below /cow. Without
+root aufs, and they will be loaded in the order listed here. The first entry
+in this file will be the "lowest" point in the aufs, and the last file in
+this list will be on the "top" of the aufs, directly below /cow. Without
this file, any images in the "/live" directory are loaded in alphanumeric order.
See also