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| author | Karel Zak | 2009-06-09 21:11:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2009-06-22 21:30:47 +0200 |
| commit | b39bd02572a8dc3dd86b3a6e535b5051e3f20273 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f74cc7fa6d4c7a01752500592aa9a9355eed548 /sys-utils/switch_root.8 | |
| parent | switch_root: use snprintf() rather tan str{cpy,cat}() (diff) | |
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switch_root: add man page
Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/sys-utils/switch_root.8 b/sys-utils/switch_root.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ea175b000 --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-utils/switch_root.8 @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +.\" Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> +.TH SWITCH_ROOT 8 "June 2009" "Linux" +.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 +.RB [ \fIarg\fP +.RB ...] +.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 "SEE ALSO" +.BR mount (8) +.BR chroot (2) +.BR init (8) +.BR mkinitrd (8) +.SH AUTHORS +.nf +Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> +Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> +Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> +.fi +.SH AVAILABILITY +The switch_root command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from +ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/. |