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Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd)

From Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd)
Date 2020-11-23 07:40 +0100
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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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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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