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| author | Karel Zak | 2009-11-20 15:18:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-11-20 15:18:51 +0100 |
| commit | 63cb4b0616bd436846e490fdce5fa1df6b50d5cb (patch) | |
| tree | 5f93a88bf8c736e48170a3b73097e2aee5cf89b3 /sys-utils/switch_root.8 | |
| parent | Revert "switch_root: add subroot support" (diff) | |
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switch_root: add note about subroots to switch_root.8
Based on patch from Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'sys-utils/switch_root.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/switch_root.8 | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/switch_root.8 b/sys-utils/switch_root.8 index 4fdc8e945..b6712ecb1 100644 --- a/sys-utils/switch_root.8 +++ b/sys-utils/switch_root.8 @@ -32,6 +32,19 @@ show version number and exit .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) |