From e110cc3e91bd59cc73ca8e7c6ba10c79feec9344 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Burri <axel@tty0.ch>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2021 14:30:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] documentation: README.md: mention mandatory mounting of
 subvolid=5

---
 README.md | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 045274d..768384b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ a full description of the command line options.
   [btrbk(1)]: https://digint.ch/btrbk/doc/btrbk.1.html
 
 
-Configuration File
-==================
+Configuration
+=============
 
 Before running `btrbk`, you will need to create a configuration
 file. You might want to take a look at `btrbk.conf.example` provided
@@ -93,6 +93,9 @@ The examples below assume that the btrfs subvolume containing `home`
 and `rootfs` is mounted at `/mnt/btr_pool`. This is usually the btrfs
 root subvolume, which always has `subvolid=5`.
 
+Note that mounting subvolid=5 is *mandatory* if you want to backup
+your root filesystem `/`.
+
 /etc/fstab:
 
     /dev/sda1  /mnt/btr_pool  btrfs  subvolid=5,noatime  0 0