Now we're in chroot, it is a good time to change the ownership of all files and directories that were installed in chapter 5 back to root. Run the following commands to do so: chown 0:0 / /proc && chown -R 0:0 /{bin,boot,dev,etc,home,lib,mnt,opt,root,sbin,tmp,usr,var} Depending on the filesystem you created on the LFS partition, you may have a /lost+found directory. If so, run: chown 0:0 /lost+found These commands will change the ownership of the root partition and the /proc directory to root, plus everything under the directories mentioned in the second line. In these commands, 0:0 is used instead of the usual root:root, because the username root can't be resolved because glibc is not yet installed.