chroot - command
The chroot command creates a shell with an alternate root directory. It hides the content anything outside of this directory. To rescure the system, or for maintenance, you boot off the cd/DVD or ISO image. Your filesystem will be on cdrom's root filesystem not the system disks partition.
You can check with following commands.
# df -h | grep root
# mount | grep root
# ls
Mount your disk based root filesystem.
# mount /dev/mapper/system--ROOT /mnt
# cd /mnt
chroot to the disk mounted mountpoint.
# chroot /mnt
# ls /
review the content before chroot and after chroot. You will not be able to see the content from cd before you chrooted contents.
Note: If you are on rescue mode on redhat based systems using cd/dvd/iso image, your disk based root disk is mounted at /mnt/sysimage. You can simply run # chroot /mnt/sysimage to get into the disk based root fs.
The chroot command creates a shell with an alternate root directory. It hides the content anything outside of this directory. To rescure the system, or for maintenance, you boot off the cd/DVD or ISO image. Your filesystem will be on cdrom's root filesystem not the system disks partition.
You can check with following commands.
# df -h | grep root
# mount | grep root
# ls
Mount your disk based root filesystem.
# mount /dev/mapper/system--ROOT /mnt
# cd /mnt
chroot to the disk mounted mountpoint.
# chroot /mnt
# ls /
review the content before chroot and after chroot. You will not be able to see the content from cd before you chrooted contents.
Note: If you are on rescue mode on redhat based systems using cd/dvd/iso image, your disk based root disk is mounted at /mnt/sysimage. You can simply run # chroot /mnt/sysimage to get into the disk based root fs.
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