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Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd)



Tomas composed on 2020-11-21 22:46 (UTC+0100):

> You can inspect it like so:

>   gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 | cpio -it | less

That was shortened to 'lsinitrd <initrdfile> | less' in 2008 in openSUSE[1], which
Mandriva already had, eventually upstream'd to dracut, I'm guessing well over 5
years ago, since I can't figure out how to find dracut's changelog. I wonder why
Debian's dracut doesn't have it?

https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/master/lsinitrd.sh

[1] https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439103#c7
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