mic-chroot1

Usage

Overview

mic-chroot can chroot into a live image to do some changes, you can use it to unpack a live image then do some changes, once changes are done, you can regenerate a live image including those changes you did.

mic-image-manager has a GUI tool for mic-chroot, you can use it if you prefer to use GUI instead of command line.

Options

--version show version number

-h, --help show this help message

-s SAVETO, --save-to=SAVETO Save unpacked filesystem to the specified path

--unpack-only Just unpack an image, this is used tounpack an image with -s option together

-b BINDMOUNTS, --bind-mounts=BINDMOUNTS Specify bind mount list, for example: -b "/proc:/proc;/:/parentroot"

-c CONVERTTO, --convert-to=CONVERTTO Convert it to the specified type live image on exiting, the allowed value is livecd or liveusb

--convert-only Just convert an image, this will skip chroot and directly convert an image/filesytem with -c option together

-o OUTDIR, --outdir=OUTDIR Output directory to use (default: current work dir)

Examples

Unpack an image to a directory and chroot into it:

mic-chroot -s /my/fs/root

Exit status

mic-image-convertor returns a zero exist status if it succeeds, otherwise return non-zero and print error message.