chroot (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
chroot – run command or interactive shell with special root directory
SYNOPSIS
chroot [OPTION] NEWROOT [COMMAND [ARG]…]
chroot OPTION
DESCRIPTION
Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.
–userspec=USER:GROUP- specify user and group (ID or name) to use
–groups=G_LIST- specify supplementary groups as g1,g2,..,gN
–help- display this help and exit
–version- output version information and exit
If no command is given, run ‘${SHELL} -i‘ (default: ‘/bin/sh -i‘).
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report chroot translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
AUTHOR
Written by Roland McGrath.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
chroot(2)
The full documentation for chroot is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and chroot programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils ‘chroot invocation’
should give you access to the complete manual.