OSTREE-ADMIN-PREPARE-SOFT-REBOOT(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Hii bestie, welcome to the OSTREE-ADMIN-PREPARE-SOFT-REBOOT(1) manual page — the one and only ostree-admin-prepare-soft-reboot command, section 1, main character energy. 💅 Its whole vibe: prep the target deployment (via index) for a soft reboot. That’s it, that’s the job. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ostree admin prepare-soft-reboot {INDEX}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this command prepares — or unsets — the deployment at INDEX for a systemd soft reboot by mounting /run/nextroot. Slay. 🫶

INDEX has to be in range, and it must not reference the currently booted deployment. No cap.

⚠️ Important caveat, bestie: it is not supported to soft reboot into a deployment with a different kernel state (including initramfs) than the booted one. That’s a hard no. 💀

Also lowkey important: if a soft reboot is initiated for a deployment that is not staged, while a staged deployment is active, the staged deployment will be automatically cleared. The more you know. 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --reboot — Initiate a soft reboot. Literally just kicks off the soft reboot. 🔥
• --reset — Clear a pending soft reboot state instead of initializing one. When this is provided, a deployment index is not required. So INDEX can chill at home. 🛋️

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• systemd-soft-reboot.service(8) — for the systemd side of the soft-reboot saga. iykyk. 🧚

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