[SCM] live-boot branch, debian-next, updated. debian/3.0_a8-1-4-g3ab05a0

Daniel Baumann daniel at debian.org
Tue Oct 26 07:13:47 UTC 2010


The following commit has been merged in the debian-next branch:
commit 3ab05a040ed47deebaab7d524e2ffb50b009f8d8
Author: T(A)ILS developers <amnesia at boum.org>
Date:   Sat Oct 23 13:44:59 2010 +0200

    Adding documentation for persistent=cryptsetup in the manpage.

diff --git a/manpages/en/live-boot.7 b/manpages/en/live-boot.7
index e737623..7ec1a47 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

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