dracut-catimages8
Creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images
Usage
dracut-catimages [OPTION ...]
<initramfs
base
image>
[<image> ...]
Overview
dracut-catimages creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command line and /var/lib/dracut/images/*.img
Options
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-f, --force -
overwrite existing initramfs file.
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-i, --imagedir -
Directory with additional images to add (default: /var/lib/dracut/images/)
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-o, --overlaydir -
Overlay directory, which contains additional files that will be used to create an additional image
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--nooverlay -
Do not use the overlay directory
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--noimagedir -
Do not use the additional image directory
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-h, --help -
display help text and exit.
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--debug -
output debug information of the build process
-
-v, --verbose -
verbose output during the build process
Files
/var/lib/dracut/images/*.img
images to work with
History
- Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
- Debian 13 (Trixie)
- Debian 12 (Bookworm)
- Debian 11 (Bullseye)
- Debian 10 (Buster)
- Debian 9 (Stretch)
- Debian 8 (Jessie)
- Debian 7 (Wheezy)
- Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)