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| -rw-r--r-- | manpages/en/live-boot.7 | 8 |
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diff --git a/manpages/en/live-boot.7 b/manpages/en/live-boot.7 index 9e72e9b..3a7376b 100644 --- a/manpages/en/live-boot.7 +++ b/manpages/en/live-boot.7 @@ -100,8 +100,12 @@ disables the "persistent" feature, useful if the bootloader (like syslinux) has Do not prompt to eject the CD or remove the USB flash drive on reboot. .IP "\fBswapon\fR" 4 This parameter enables usage of local swap partitions. -.IP "\fBpersistent\fR[=nofiles]" 4 -live\-boot will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled "live\-rw", "home\-rw", and files called "live\-sn*", "home\-sn*" and will try to, in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the contents of the latter in appropriate locations (snapshots). Snapshots will be tried to be updated on reboot/shutdown. Look at live\-snapshot(1) for more informations. If "nofiles" is specified, only filesystems with matching labels will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image files. This results in shorter boot times. +.IP "\fBpersistent\fR[={nofiles|cryptsetup}]" 4 +live\-boot will look for persistent and snapshot partitions or files labeled "live\-rw", "home\-rw", and files called "live\-sn*", "home\-sn*" and will try to, in order: mount as /cow the first, mount the second in /home, and just copy the contents of the latter in appropriate locations (snapshots). Snapshots will be tried to be updated on reboot/shutdown. Look at live\-snapshot(1) for more informations. +.br +If "nofiles" is specified, only filesystems with matching labels will be searched; no filesystems will be traversed looking for archives or image files. This results in shorter boot times. +.br +If "cryptsetup" is specified, filesystems stored on Luks\-encrypted devices will be considered as well as others when searching for a persistence filesystem; the user will be prompted for any needed decryption passphrase. .IP "\fBpersistent\-path\fR=\fIPATH\fR" 4 live\-boot will look for persistency files in the root directory of a partition, with this parameter, the path can be configured so that you can have multiple directories on the same partition to store persistency files. .IP "\fBpersistent\-subtext\fR=\fISUFFIX\fR" 4 |