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switch_root: add man page
authorKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:11:53 +0000 (21:11 +0200)
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:30:47 +0000 (21:30 +0200)
Acked-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
sys-utils/Makefile.am
sys-utils/switch_root.8 [new file with mode: 0644]

index 6700677f33e997762734f2f67ba30408d005c741..27f85b8dd9b30ebeed9a069d9b90afcd7396d60f 100644 (file)
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ endif
 
 if BUILD_SWITCH_ROOT
 sbin_PROGRAMS += switch_root
+dist_man_MANS += switch_root.8
 endif
 
 if BUILD_ARCH
diff --git a/sys-utils/switch_root.8 b/sys-utils/switch_root.8
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..ea175b0
--- /dev/null
@@ -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/.