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Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd)



On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 01:36:05AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> 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?

Hm. Apt-file search says (Buster) that /usr/bin/lsinitrd is in package
dracut-core (not installed in my box, so I can't double check now).

Cheers
 - t

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