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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-05-11 17:35:46 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2012-05-14 22:41:30 +0200
commit957eb8cab28dc83aa4b800d033031e53cd0a9e00 (patch)
treefbf5b42eabbb3e7416ac48232aa50acd027c5f27 /man/systemctl.xml
parent50913bc0c8ced894ceabc7e893c0fdf73af9a261 (diff)
systemctl: add switch-root verb
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diff --git a/man/systemctl.xml b/man/systemctl.xml
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@@ -1159,6 +1159,33 @@
<listitem><para>Hibernate the system.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>switch-root [ROOT] [INIT]</command></term>
+
+ <listitem><para>Switches to a
+ different root directory and executes
+ a new system manager process below
+ it. This is intended for usage in
+ initial RAM disks ("initrd"), and will
+ transition from the initrd's system
+ manager process (a.k.a "init" process)
+ to the main system manager
+ process. Takes two arguments: the
+ directory to make the new root
+ directory, and the path to the new
+ system manager binary below it to
+ execute as PID 1. If the latter is
+ ommitted or the empty string, a
+ systemd binary will automatically be
+ searched for and used as init. If the
+ system manager path is ommitted or
+ equal the empty string the state of
+ the initrd's system manager process is
+ passed to the main system manager,
+ which allows later introspection of the
+ state of the services involved in the
+ initrd boot.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>