overlayroot-chroot(8)

overlayroot-chroot8

Chroot into the lower filesystem in a writable mode

Usage

overlayroot-chroot [COMMAND [ARG] ...]

Overview

overlayroot-chroot is a program that sets up bind mounts for /proc, /run, and /sys, remounts the lower directory in an overlayfs with write capabilities and will chroot(8) into it. Upon exit, the bind mounts are unmounted.

Any [COMMAND [ARG]...] are passed directly through to chroot(8).

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm).

  1. 12–13

Author

This manpage and the utility were written by Dustin Kirkland <[email protected]> for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document and the utility under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software Foundation.

The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL on Debian/Ubuntu systems, or on the web at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt.

From overlayroot 0.18.debian14 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.