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Re: Size of initrd

From Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Size of initrd
Date 2020-11-23 14:20 +0100
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On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:03:06PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> The initramfs is a compressed cpio archive (of the initial file
> system at boot time). You can inspect it like so:
> 
>   gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 | cpio -it | less

Debian's initrd images are actually multiple cpio archives concatenated
together.  The command you used here only views the first archive.

Use lsinitramfs instead.  It will open all of the archives inside the
image.

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Size of initrd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-21 21:00 +0100
  Re: Size of initrd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-21 22:10 +0100
    Re: Size of initrd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-23 05:50 +0100
      Re: Size of initrd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-23 06:20 +0100
        Re: Size of initrd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-24 00:40 +0100
          Re: Size of initrd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-24 10:20 +0100
            Re: Size of initrd Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-11-24 14:00 +0100
              Re: Size of initrd Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-11-24 15:40 +0100
            Re: Size of initrd Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-24 16:00 +0100
      Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-11-23 07:40 +0100
        Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-23 09:50 +0100
          Re: initrd inspection Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-11-23 12:30 +0100
            Re: initrd inspection <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-23 13:00 +0100
              Re: initrd inspection Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-24 00:40 +0100
    Re: Size of initrd Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-11-23 14:00 +0100
      Re: Size of initrd Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-11-23 14:30 +0100
      Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2020-11-23 18:30 +0100
    Re: Size of initrd Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-11-23 14:20 +0100
      Re: Size of initrd <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-23 16:20 +0100
  Re: Size of initrd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-21 22:40 +0100
  Re: Size of initrd Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2020-11-21 22:50 +0100
    Re: Size of initrd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-11-22 00:10 +0100

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