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Commit 5c08da58 authored by Lennart Poettering's avatar Lennart Poettering
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repart: add CopyBlocks=auto support

When using systemd-repart as an installer that replicates the install
medium on another medium it is useful to reference the root
partition/usr partition or verity data that is currently booted, in
particular in A/B scenarios where we have two copies and want to
reference the one we currently use. Let's add a CopyBlocks=auto for this
case: for a partition that uses that we'll copy a suitable partition
from the host.

CopyBlocks=auto finds the partition to copy like this: based on the
configured partition type uuid we determine the usual mount point (i.e.
for the /usr partition type we determine /usr/, and so on). We then
figure out the block device behind that path, through dm-verity and
dm-crypt if necessary. Finally, we compare the partition type uuid of
the partition found that way with the one we are supposed to fill and
only use it if it matches (the latter is primarily important on
dm-verity setups where a volume is likely backed by two partitions and
we need to find the right one).

This is particularly fun to use in conjunction with --image= (where
we'll restrict the device search onto the specify device, for security
reasons), as this allows "duplicating" an image like this:

    # systemd-repart --image=source.raw --empty=create --size=auto target.raw

If the right repart data is embedded into "source.raw" this will be able
to create and initialize a partition table on target.raw that carrries
all needed partitions, and will stream the source's file systems onto it
as configured.
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