<varlistentry>
<term><option>--copy-from=</option><arg>IMAGE</arg></term>
- <listitem><para>Instructs <command>systemd-repart</command> to copy the partitions from the given
- image. The partitions from the given image are synthesized into partition definitions that are
- parsed before the partition definition files.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>Instructs <command>systemd-repart</command> to synthesize partition definitions from
+ the partition table in the given image. The generated definitions will copy the partitions into the
+ destination partition table. The copied partitions will have the same size, metadata and contents but
+ might have a different partition number and might be located at a different offset in the destination
+ partition table. These definitions can be combined with partition definitions read from regular
+ partition definition files. The synthesized definitions take precedence over the definitions read
+ from partition definition files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
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