2 <title>Mounting the proc file system</title>
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5 <para>In order for certain programs to function properly, the proc file
6 system must be available within the chroot'ed environment.
7 As a file system can be mounted as many times and in as many places
8 as you like, it's not a problem that the proc file system is already
9 mounted on your host system -- especially so because proc is a
10 virtual file system.</para>
12 <para>The proc file system is mounted under
13 <filename class="directory">/proc</filename> by running the
14 following command:</para>
16 <para><screen><userinput>mount proc /proc -t proc</userinput></screen></para>