From b13154de3eca5ba28fbb4854d916cd0be5febeed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Igor Pashev Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 20:15:39 +0400 Subject: Imported Upstream version 2.22 --- sys-utils/switch_root.8 | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) create mode 100644 sys-utils/switch_root.8 (limited to 'sys-utils/switch_root.8') diff --git a/sys-utils/switch_root.8 b/sys-utils/switch_root.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..34ab0d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-utils/switch_root.8 @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +.\" Karel Zak +.TH SWITCH_ROOT 8 "June 2009" "util-linux" "System Administration" +.SH NAME +switch_root \- switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B switch_root +.RB [ \-hV ] +.LP +.B switch_root +.I newroot +.I init +.RI [ arg ...] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B switch_root +moves already mounted /proc, /dev and /sys to +.I newroot +and makes +.I newroot +the new root filesystem and starts +.I init +process. + +.B WARNING: switch_root removes recursively all files and directories on the current root filesystem. + +.SH OPTIONS +.IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP" +show help and exit +.IP "\fB\-V, \-\-version\fP" +show version number and exit + +.SH RETURN VALUE +.B switch_root +returns 0 on success and 1 on failure. + +.SH NOTES +switch_root will fail to function if +.B newroot +is not the root of a mount. If you want to switch root into a directory that +does not meet this requirement then you can first use a bind-mounting trick to +turn any directory into a mount point: +.sp +.nf +.RS +mount --bind $DIR $DIR +.RE +.fi + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR mount (8) +.BR chroot (2) +.BR init (8) +.BR mkinitrd (8) +.SH AUTHORS +.nf +Peter Jones +Jeremy Katz +Karel Zak +.fi +.SH AVAILABILITY +The switch_root command is part of the util-linux package and is available from +ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. -- cgit v1.2.3