Reference

lvmcreate_initrd(8)

create an initial ramdisk to boot with root on a logical volume

NAME

lvmcreate_initrd - create an initial ramdisk to boot with root on a logical volume

SYNOPSIS

lvcmreate_initrd

DESCRIPTION

lvmcreate_initrd creates a new compressed initial ramdisk in /boot/initrd.gz. The initial ramdisk containes all necessary binaries, shared libraries and a linuxrc file to switch to a logical volume based root filesystem. lvmcreate_initrd assumes that /dev/vg00/root contains the root filesystem.

DIAGNOSTICS

lvcmcreate_initrd return 0 for success. 1 is returned in all other cases.

See also

lvm(8), vgcreate(8), lvcreate(8)

AUTHOR

Heinz Mauelshagen <[email protected]>