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layout: page
category-title: Intermediate commands
category-page: intermediate
tags: change root
author: Gianmarco De Vita
title: chroot
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<p>The <code>chroot</code> utility allows you to change its root directory to
  the one indicated in newroot and, if given, executes the command.</p>

<pre>
Device-name:Current-position username$ chroot newroot [command]
</pre>