Understanding systemd generators
systemd generators can make life somewhat easier for a busy administrator and also provide some backward compatibility with legacy SysV stuff. Let's first look at how generators make disk and partition configuration easier.
Understanding mount units
Look in the /lib/systemd/system/ directory of either VM, and you'll see several mount unit files that got created when you installed the operating system, as shown here on this Alma machine:
[donnie@localhost system]$ ls -l *.mount -rw-r--r--. 1 root 750 Jun 22 2018 dev-hugepages.mount -rw-r--r--. 1 root 665 Jun 22 2018 dev-mqueue.mount -rw-r--r--. 1 root 655 Jun 22 2018 proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 795 Jun 22 2018 sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 767 Jun 22 2018 sys-kernel-config.mount -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 710 Jun 22 2018 sys-kernel-debug.mount -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 782...
