---
name: "lvmcreate_initrd"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "lvm"
version: "0.8i-1"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lvmcreate_initrd"
---

# 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)](/lvm/8.md), [vgcreate(8)](/vgcreate/8.md), [lvcreate(8)](/lvcreate/8.md)

## AUTHOR

Heinz Mauelshagen \<linux-lvm@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de\>