Re: What is the /initrd directory?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:35:57PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Once upon a time, Aaron wrote :
> 
> > I am sorry if this is partially repetitive relative to a separately
> > posted question but it focuses more exactly on the problem we are facing.
> > We have machines with this directory and without. Some with this
> > directory have the directory empty.
> 
> I'd say that your Enigma machines have it and that your Seawolf ones don't,
> right? I suppose it's used at boot time to temporarily mount the initial
> ramdisk (initrd), although I don't really get the point of doing that. Just
> a little bit of advice : Don't try removing that directory if the kernel
> you're running has an initrd or you may have a bad surprise upon the next
> reboot :-) (from my experience and from what I've seen on this list)
> 
> I'd love a real good answer about what it is too, I'm too lazy right now to
> go hunting through the init scripts ;-)
> 
> Matthias
> 
> -- 
Would that be true. True Enigma machines have it. But we have 7.1 machines
with a initrd...img file that do not have /initrd directery. 
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