Re: Heres a dumb one - where does intitrd `img' come from

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Mar  1, 2004, Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com> wrote:

> Where does the /boot/initrd*.img come from.

mkinitrd creates it.

> There is 1012MB of data there though... yikes.  Is that normal?

1GiB?  Certainly not.  1012KiB (~ 1 MiB) would be something more
reasonable, depending on the number of modules and start-up programs
that are necessary to mount the root filesystem and pivot to it.

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