watergrinder
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Could somebody tell about chroot? When should it be used?
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chroot
- Thread starter watergrinder
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almost never...
one exception: suppose you have to restore
something ABSOLUTE in a RELATIVE path.
g.e.: you have to restore TARFILE (a tar file of
/usr/bin) *** NOTE the absolute path, not ./usr/bin
you can and will not overwrite YOUR /usr/bin
in this case chroot is your friend, see man pages
mkdir /XXX
cp the-statically-linked-tar-cmd to /XXX/s_tar
and also the TARFILE; then
chroot /XXX
now you can read the TARFILE locally to /XXX/usr/bin
./s_tar xfv TARFILE
guggach
one exception: suppose you have to restore
something ABSOLUTE in a RELATIVE path.
g.e.: you have to restore TARFILE (a tar file of
/usr/bin) *** NOTE the absolute path, not ./usr/bin
you can and will not overwrite YOUR /usr/bin
in this case chroot is your friend, see man pages
mkdir /XXX
cp the-statically-linked-tar-cmd to /XXX/s_tar
and also the TARFILE; then
chroot /XXX
now you can read the TARFILE locally to /XXX/usr/bin
./s_tar xfv TARFILE
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