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<refentry id="systemd.automount">
[Install] sections. The automount specific configuration options
are configured in the [Automount] section.</para>
- <para>Automount units must be named after the automount
- directories they control. Example: the automount point
- <filename noindex='true'>/home/lennart</filename> must be
- configured in a unit file
- <filename>home-lennart.automount</filename>. For details about the
- escaping logic used to convert a file system path to a unit name
- see
- <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para>
+ <para>Automount units must be named after the automount directories they control. Example: the automount point
+ <filename noindex='true'>/home/lennart</filename> must be configured in a unit file
+ <filename>home-lennart.automount</filename>. For details about the escaping logic used to convert a file system
+ path to a unit name see
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.unit</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>. 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.</para>
<para>For each automount unit file a matching mount unit file (see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.mount</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
<refsect1>
<title>Automatic Dependencies</title>
- <para>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.</para>
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Implicit Dependencies</title>
+
+ <para>The following dependencies are implicitly added:</para>
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>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.</para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem><para>An implicit <varname>Before=</varname> dependency is created
+ between an automount unit and the mount unit it activates.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </refsect2>
- <para>An implicit <varname>Before=</varname> dependency is created
- between an automount unit and the mount unit it activates.</para>
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>Default Dependencies</title>
- <para>Automount units acquire automatic <varname>Before=</varname> and <varname>Conflicts=</varname> on
- <filename>umount.target</filename> in order to be stopped during shutdown, unless
- <varname>DefaultDependencies=no</varname> is set in the <literal>[Unit]</literal> section.</para>
+ <para>The following dependencies are added unless <varname>DefaultDependencies=no</varname> is set:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>Automount units acquire automatic <varname>Before=</varname> and
+ <varname>Conflicts=</varname> on <filename>umount.target</filename> in order to be stopped during
+ shutdown.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </refsect2>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>