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6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion content/en/docs/faq.md
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Expand Up @@ -62,7 +62,11 @@ objects that report their output. The bus starts the service when a command arri
after a minute without work, so nothing of nspawn's runs in the background
otherwise. A package installs it; for a binary you built yourself,
`sudo nspawn daemon --install`. Its journal is `journalctl -u nspawn.service`,
and the interface is described in `docs/DBUS.md` of the repository.
and the interface is described in `docs/DBUS.md` of the repository. After an
upgrade the service keeps running the binary it started with until it goes
idle or is restarted; a command of another version says so and asks for
`sudo systemctl restart nspawn.service` (the rpm and the deb restart it
themselves).

## Are the images signed?

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Expand Up @@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ nspawn images rm NAME...
```

Removes local images and the layers and blobs nobody uses any more. Refuses
the image of a running machine, or of one its restart policy is bringing back.
Named volumes are kept. A pulled image is a machine too, so this is the same as
the image of a running machine, or of one its restart policy is bringing back,
and a name nothing is behind. Named volumes are kept. A pulled image is a machine too, so this is the same as
[rm](#rm) without `--force`.

## rm
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Removes machines, like `docker rm`: the record, the tree, the unit files, the
boot link a restart policy made, and the layers and blobs nobody else uses.
Every name is tried; one that cannot be removed is reported at the end. Named
volumes are kept, and each one kept is mentioned.
Every name is tried; one that cannot be removed, or that nothing is behind
(`no machine or image named NAME`), is reported at the end. Named volumes are
kept, and each one kept is mentioned.

| Option | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
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privacy_policy: /about/#privacy

# Version of nspawn the documentation describes.
version: 1.5.0
version: 1.5.1
archived_version: false

# In-page links to open issues and suggest changes.
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