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From 55473e86b6fc1bc15d58810eb73594b1f30568bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@fedoraproject.org>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 12:37:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add a minimal rd.live.overlay documentation
Signed-off-by: Fabian Deutsch <fabiand@fedoraproject.org>
(cherry picked from commit a1b4efe6a722ac3754d8a48109575d11d5ccf61b)
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dracut.cmdline.7.asc | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/dracut.cmdline.7.asc b/dracut.cmdline.7.asc
index 1e89bd50..c7e3bd40 100644
--- a/dracut.cmdline.7.asc
+++ b/dracut.cmdline.7.asc
@@ -806,6 +806,18 @@ can be found. By default, this is __LiveOS__.
Copy the complete image to RAM and use this for booting. This is useful
when the image resides on i.e. a DVD which needs to be ejected later on.
+**rd.live.overlay=**_<devspec>_:_(<pathspec>|auto)__
+Allow the usage of a permanent overlay.
+_<devspec>_ specifies the path to a device with a mountable filesystem.
+_<pathspec>_ is the path to a file within that filesystem, which shall be used to
+persist the changes made to the device specified by **root=live:__<url>__** option.
++
+[listing]
+.Example
+--
+rd.live.overlay=/dev/sdb1:persistent-overlay.img
+--
+
**rd.live.overlay.thin=**1::
Enables the usage of thin snapshots instead of classic dm snapshots.
The advantage of thin snapshots is, that they support discards, and will free