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<title>Description</title>
- <para>A unit configuration file whose name ends in
- <literal>.automount</literal> encodes information about a file
- system automount point controlled and supervised by
- systemd.</para>
+ <para>A unit configuration file whose name ends in <literal>.automount</literal> encodes information
+ about a file system automount point controlled and supervised by systemd. Automount units may be used to
+ implement on-demand mounting as well as parallelized mounting of file systems.</para>
<para>This man page lists the configuration options specific to
this unit type. See
accesses <filename>/home/lennart</filename> the mount unit
<filename>home-lennart.mount</filename> will be activated.</para>
- <para>Automount units may be used to implement on-demand mounting
- as well as parallelized mounting of file systems.</para>
-
<para>Note that automount units are separate from the mount itself, so you
should not set <varname>After=</varname> or <varname>Requires=</varname>
for mount dependencies here. For example, you should not set
filesystems. Doing so may result in an ordering cycle.</para>
<para>Note that automount support on Linux is privileged, automount units are hence only available in the
- system service manager (and root's user service manager), but not in unprivileged user's service
- manager.</para>
+ system service manager (and root's user service manager), but not in unprivileged users' service
+ managers.</para>
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<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>If an automount unit is beneath another mount unit in the file system hierarchy, a
+ requirement and ordering dependencies are created to the on the unit higher in the hierarchy.
+ </para></listitem>
- <listitem><para>An implicit <varname>Before=</varname> dependency is created
- between an automount unit and the mount unit it activates.</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>
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