UNMKINITRAMFS
Section: System Administration (8)
Updated: 2016/12/15
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NAME
unmkinitramfs - extract content from an initramfs image
SYNOPSIS
unmkinitramfs
[-v]
initramfs-file directory
unmkinitramfs -h
DESCRIPTION
The
unmkinitramfs
command extracts the content of a given initramfs image using
cpio.
If the image contains multiple segments, each are passed to
cpio
in order.
OPTIONS
- -h
-
Display usage information and exit.
- -v
-
Display verbose messages about extraction.
USAGE EXAMPLES
Extract initramfs content of current running kernel:
unmkinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) initramfs/
BUGS
unmkinitramfs
cannot deal with multiple-segmented initramfs images, except where an
early (uncompressed) initramfs with system firmware is prepended to
the regular compressed initramfs.
AUTHOR
The initramfs-tools are written by Maximilian Attems <maks@debian.org>
and numerous others.
SEE ALSO
initramfs-tools(7),
lsinitramfs(8),
mkinitramfs(8),
update-initramfs(8).
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- USAGE EXAMPLES
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- BUGS
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- AUTHOR
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- SEE ALSO
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