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Re: What is /dev/.initramfs?



Edward C. Jones wrote:
> rkhunter complains about the directory "/dev/.initramfs". This directory 
> contains the file "progress_state" which contains the line 
> "PROGRESS_STATE=6". A search didn't find much except a hint that this 
> might have something to do with package sysvinit.
> 
> Is "/dev/.initramfs" supposed to be in my system? How do I find out 
> which package is responsible for a file like 
> "/dev/.initramfs/progress_state"?

It's created by initramfs-tools generated ramfs filesystems during boot,
see /usr/share/initramfs-tools/init and
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions.

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see shy jo

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