chroot

chroot [OPTION]... NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]...]

Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.

Options

--groups=<GROUP1,GROUP2...>

Comma-separated list of groups to switch to

--userspec=<USER:GROUP>

Colon-separated user and group to switch to.

--skip-chdir

Use this option to not change the working directory to / after changing the root directory to newroot, i.e., inside the chroot.

Examples

Run $SHELL in the new root directory:

sudo chroot {{path/to/new_root}}

Run command as new root directory:

sudo chroot {{path/to/new_root}} {{command}}

Use a specific user and group:

sudo chroot --userspec {{username_or_id}}:{{group_name_or_id}} {{path/to/new_root}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.