Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

David Wright wrote:
> > >   $ cpio -t < /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64

Felix Miata wrote:
> > Is that a typo? I copied & pasted that and the screen loaded binary
> > gibberish.

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> GNU cpio(1) says that -t implies -i, so it should work on Debian.

Probably the initrd is compressed and the binary stuff was the error
messages of cpio, which are not terminal-safe.

If

  file /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64

says

  ... gzip compressed data ...

then the command to list the file tree would be

  gunzip </boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64 | cpio -t

(and maybe a pipe to "less").


Have a nice day :)

Thomas