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SWITCH_ROOT(8) System Administration SWITCH_ROOT(8)
switch_root - switch to another filesystem as the root of the
mount tree
switch_root [-hV]
switch_root newroot init [arg...]
switch_root moves already mounted /proc, /dev, /sys and /run to
newroot and makes newroot the new root filesystem and starts init
process.
WARNING: switch_root removes recursively all files and
directories on the current root filesystem.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
-V, --version
Print version and exit.
switch_root returns 1 on failure, it never returns on success.
switch_root will fail to function if 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:
mount --bind $DIR $DIR
Peter Jones <[email protected]>, Jeremy Katz <[email protected]>,
Karel Zak <[email protected]>
chroot(2), init(8), mkinitrd(8), mount(8)
For bug reports, use the issue tracker at
https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.
The switch_root command is part of the util-linux package which
can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>. This page
is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you have
a bug report for this manual page, send it to
[email protected]. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2024-06-14. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2024-06-10.) If you discover
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send a mail to [email protected]
util-linux 2.39.594-1e0ad 2023-07-19 SWITCH_ROOT(8)
Pages that refer to this page: chroot(2), pivot_root(2), namespaces(7), pid_namespaces(7), pivot_root(8)
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