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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

SYSTEMD-CLONESETUP(8)       systemd-clonesetup      SYSTEMD-CLONESETUP(8)

NAME         top

       systemd-clonesetup, systemd-clonesetup@.service - Set up and tear
       down dm-clone devices

SYNOPSIS         top


       systemd-clonesetup add NAME SOURCE-DEVICE DEST-DEVICE META-DEVICE
                          [OPTIONS]

       systemd-clonesetup remove NAME

       systemd-clonesetup@.service

DESCRIPTION         top

       systemd-clonesetup is used to set up (with add) and tear down
       (with remove) dm-clone devices. It is primarily used via
       systemd-clonesetup@.service units generated from /etc/clonetab by
       systemd-clonesetup-generator(8).

       The positional arguments NAME, SOURCE-DEVICE, DEST-DEVICE,
       META-DEVICE, and OPTIONS have the same meaning as the fields in
       clonetab(5).

       Currently, the supported option in OPTIONS is region-size=BYTES,
       where BYTES is measured in bytes (standard suffixes like "K", "M",
       "G" are supported).

SEE ALSO         top

       systemd(1), clonetab(5), systemd-clonesetup-generator(8),
       systemd.generator(7), dmsetup(8)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the systemd (systemd system and service
       manager) project.  Information about the project can be found at
       ⟨http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd⟩.  If you have a
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systemd 262~devel                                   SYSTEMD-CLONESETUP(8)

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