Am Dienstag, 6. September 2011, 19:02:14 schrieb Alphonse Hansel Anthony: > Hi, > What is the difference between chroot & pivot_root. As far as I know, chroot changes only the effective root for one newly started process and all the child processes it will start in the future, leaving all other processes unaffected, while pivot_root changes the root for the entire system, killing all other processes. The last time I saw pivot_root in practical use, it was as part of some multi- staged boot-over-nfs process. Guido
