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diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/help.py b/scripts/lib/wic/help.py
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@@ -866,11 +866,11 @@ DESCRIPTION
Partitions with a <mountpoint> specified will be automatically mounted.
This is achieved by wic adding entries to the fstab during image
generation. In order for a valid fstab to be generated one of the
- --ondrive, --ondisk or --use-uuid partition options must be used for
- each partition that specifies a mountpoint. Note that with --use-uuid
- and non-root <mountpoint>, including swap, the mount program must
- understand the PARTUUID syntax. This currently excludes the busybox
- versions of these applications.
+ --ondrive, --ondisk, --use-uuid or --use-label partition options must
+ be used for each partition that specifies a mountpoint. Note that with
+ --use-{uuid,label} and non-root <mountpoint>, including swap, the mount
+ program must understand the PARTUUID or LABEL syntax. This currently
+ excludes the busybox versions of these applications.
The following are supported 'part' options:
@@ -945,6 +945,14 @@ DESCRIPTION
label is already in use by another filesystem,
a new label is created for the partition.
+ --use-label: This option is specific to wic. It makes wic to use the
+ label in /etc/fstab to specify a partition. If the
+ --use-label and --use-uuid are used at the same time,
+ we prefer the uuid because it is less likely to cause
+ name confliction. We don't support using this parameter
+ on the root partition since it requires an initramfs to
+ parse this value and we do not currently support that.
+
--active: Marks the partition as active.
--align (in KBytes): This option is specific to wic and says