On Tue 10 Jan 2017 at 12:51:09 (+0100), Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday, 9 January 2017 22:49:02 CET Steffen Dettmer wrote: > > I'm looking at Jessie (Debian 8) man fsck. I found no refernce > > to systemd. I think this is some compatiblity feature of systemd. > > See systemd.mount(5) and systemd.swap(5) > > Compatiblity is done by systemd-fstab-generator
So it would appear that what's needed is a reference from man fstab to a man systemd.fstab (newly written), particularly in view of statements like "If a swap device or file is configured in both /etc/fstab and a unit file, the configuration in the latter takes precedence"¹. But, in the absence of that, careful perusal of all of man systemd-fstab-generator man systemd-fsck man systemd-remount-fs man systemd.mount man systemd.swap (source of ¹) is advisable. It doesn't really make sense to read man.fsck without systemd-fstab-generator and systemd-fsck open at the same time because the latter two directly contradict what's written in the first. Perhaps man fsck etc should really be invoked as man sysv-fsck etc. Cheers, David.
