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| author | maximilian attems <maks@debian.org> | 2006-02-14 11:22:50 +0100 |
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| committer | maximilian attems <maks@debian.org> | 2006-02-14 11:22:50 +0100 |
| commit | b3fcee343807b6dcec5bb6a075ede8b3bc5da060 (patch) | |
| tree | e40b5319fb01bb524f7178cc912654ddb735d83a /update-initramfs.8 | |
| parent | 57bae4e1d5de2dceaf2c08937fceb6a5879075c2 (diff) | |
better document the point of update-initramfs and mkinitramfs.
Diffstat (limited to 'update-initramfs.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | update-initramfs.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/update-initramfs.8 b/update-initramfs.8 index 35f1572..d1e1ed0 100644 --- a/update-initramfs.8 +++ b/update-initramfs.8 @@ -15,7 +15,11 @@ update-initramfs \- generate an initramfs image .SH DESCRIPTION The .B update-initramfs -script manages your initramfs images. The initramfs is an cpio archive. +script manages your initramfs images on your local box. +It keeps track of the existing initramfs archives in /boot. +It helps to update, create and remove those. + +The initramfs is an cpio archive. At boot time, the kernel unpacks that archive into ram disk, mounts and uses it as initial root file system. All finding of the root device happens in this early userspace. |