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Old 10-14-2019
Code:
# Begin chroot 
chrootbeg() {
  echo "chrootbeg - beg funct ..."
  sudo mount --bind /dev/ unsquash/dev
  sudo chroot unsquash

  mount -t proc none /proc/
  mount -t sysfs none /sys/
  mount -t devpts none /dev/pts
  export HOME=/root
  export LC_ALL=C
  dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
  dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl   //not sure what this does...
  ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl
}

# End chroot
chrootend(){
  echo "chrootend - beg funct ..."
  ap_clean
  rm -rf /tmp/* ~/.bash_history
  rm /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
  rm /etc/resolv.conf
  rm /sbin/initctl
  dpkg-divert --rename --remove /sbin/initctl
  #### Clean older/non-used kernels...
  dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'"$(uname -r | sed "s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/")"'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d' | xargs sudo apt-get -y purge
  umount /proc || umount -lf /proc
  umount /sys || umount -lf /sys
  umount /dev/pts  || umount -lf /dev/pts
  #HELP - Uncomment or comment out lines below?
  #HELP - will exit exit function early and not execute unmount command below?
  # Move 2 lines outside of function to be executed after function
  #exit
  #sudo umount unsquash/dev || umount -lf unsquash/dev
  #HELP - END
}


#HELP - after this script ends run with 'm' option -
  # my system is messed up. Not sure if never chrooted correct or 
  # never exited correctly. I have a 30 GB VB image i have backed up
  # that  I have to restore from every time after this script runs
  # when trying to run all code inbetween the chrootbeg and chrootend
  # functions. Can some expert please give me something specific to try
  # I think my chroot code is flawed but not sure why. I can't even run 
  # the sudo command on main system after this script run after chroot.
  echo "Chrooting into the system ..."
  chrootbeg
  fn="/etc/apt/sources.list"
  cat $fn | grep "non-free" 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
  if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then
    if [ ! -f $fn.org ]; then
      cp $fn $fn.org
    fi
    echo "Modifying file '"$fn"' adding contrib and non-free repos ..."
    sed -i 's/main/main contrib non-free/g' $fn
    cp $fn $fn.mod
    echo; ls -la $fn*; echo
  fi
  echo "apt-get update ..."
  apt-get update
  echo "Deleting libreoffice ..."
  apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-*
  echo "Deleting all non English language packs ..." 
  apt-get remove --purge `dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep language-pack | egrep -v '\-en'`
  echo "apt-get upgrade ..."
  apt-get upgrade
  echo "Installing various packages that I need ..."
  apt install curl wget apt-transport-https dirmngr
  echo "Chrooting the system  is ending ..."
  chrootend 
  echo "WARN WARN WARN - Make sure line below is executed because occurs after an exit ..."
  echo "sudo umount unsquash/dev || umount -lf unsquash/dev"
  echo "Run 'mount | grep \"unsquash/dev\"' to check after this script exits!"
  exit
  sudo umount unsquash/dev || umount -lf unsquash/dev
  #HELP - END

 

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PIVOT_ROOT(8)						       System Administration						     PIVOT_ROOT(8)

NAME
pivot_root - change the root filesystem SYNOPSIS
pivot_root new_root put_old DESCRIPTION
pivot_root moves the root file system of the current process to the directory put_old and makes new_root the new root file system. Since pivot_root(8) simply calls pivot_root(2), we refer to the man page of the latter for further details. Note that, depending on the implementation of pivot_root, root and cwd of the caller may or may not change. The following is a sequence for invoking pivot_root that works in either case, assuming that pivot_root and chroot are in the current PATH: cd new_root pivot_root . put_old exec chroot . command Note that chroot must be available under the old root and under the new root, because pivot_root may or may not have implicitly changed the root directory of the shell. Note that exec chroot changes the running executable, which is necessary if the old root directory should be unmounted afterwards. Also note that standard input, output, and error may still point to a device on the old root file system, keeping it busy. They can easily be changed when invoking chroot (see below; note the absence of leading slashes to make it work whether pivot_root has changed the shell's root or not). OPTIONS
-V, --version Display version information and exit. -h, --help Display help text and exit. EXAMPLES
Change the root file system to /dev/hda1 from an interactive shell: mount /dev/hda1 /new-root cd /new-root pivot_root . old-root exec chroot . sh <dev/console >dev/console 2>&1 umount /old-root Mount the new root file system over NFS from 10.0.0.1:/my_root and run init: ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 up # for portmap # configure Ethernet or such portmap # for lockd (implicitly started by mount) mount -o ro 10.0.0.1:/my_root /mnt killall portmap # portmap keeps old root busy cd /mnt pivot_root . old_root exec chroot . sh -c 'umount /old_root; exec /sbin/init' <dev/console >dev/console 2>&1 SEE ALSO
chroot(1), pivot_root(2), mount(8), switch_root(8), umount(8) AVAILABILITY
The pivot_root command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. util-linux August 2011 PIVOT_ROOT(8)
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