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

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

>On Mar  1, 2004, Harry Putnam <reader at 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.
>

what say ?
du -h /boo/initrd*

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shrek-m