1 .\" Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
2 .TH SWITCH_ROOT 8 "June 2009" "Linux"
4 switch_root \- switch to another filesystem as the root of the mount tree.
15 moves already mounted /proc, /dev and /sys to
19 the new root filesystem and starts
23 .B WARNING: switch_root removes recursively all files and directories on the current root filesystem.
26 .IP "\fB\-h, \-\-help\fP"
28 .IP "\fB\-V, \-\-version\fP"
29 show version number and exit
33 returns 0 on success and 1 on failure.
42 Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
43 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
44 Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
47 The switch_root command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
48 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.