pivot_root()?
pivot_root()?
Posted Mar 16, 2026 17:41 UTC (Mon) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: pivot_root()? by Nikratio
Parent article: Practical uses for a null filesystem
Per the man page, it changes the root filesystem *for the current mount namespace.* As described under NOTES, this is primarily useful for setting up containers. It was at one point also used during boot, but this is (apparently) no longer possible.