linux what does chroot mean
Hi Granny, The chroot command allows you to switch the location of your / directory for a given shell. Is more easy to use it than to explain it. Lets say you are in your VL Std system and want to make a package but you dont feel like rebooting. You open a console and mount the Light partition somewhere, for example /mnt/linux. Then, with chroot /mnt/linux, all the commands you run from that shell will be executed as if /mnt/linux were /. In that way, when in the compiling You have to keep your chroot clean as a regular install, but its a lot more comfortable and you can easily switch from a chroot to another.