dracut/dracut-catimages.8.xml

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<refentry id='dracutcatimages8'>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>DRACUT-CATIMAGES</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
<refmiscinfo class='source'>June 2009</refmiscinfo>
<refmiscinfo class='manual'>Linux</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv id='name'>
<refname>dracut-catimages</refname>
<refpurpose>creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
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<refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis'>
<cmdsynopsis>
  <command>dracut-catimages</command>    <arg choice='opt' rep='repeat'><replaceable>OPTION</replaceable></arg>
    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>&lt;initramfs</replaceable></arg>
    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>base</replaceable></arg>
    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>image&gt;</replaceable></arg>
    <arg choice='opt' rep='repeat'><replaceable>&lt;image&gt;</replaceable></arg>
    <sbr/>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>


<refsect1 id='description'><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para><command>dracut-catimages</command>
creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command
line and /boot/dracut/*.img</para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='options'><title>OPTIONS</title>
<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><option>-f</option>, <option>--force</option></term>
  <listitem>
<para>overwrite existing initramfs file.</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><option>-i</option>, <option>--imagedir</option></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Directory with additional images to add (default: /boot/dracut/)</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><option>-o</option>, <option>--overlaydir</option></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Overlay directory, which contains additional files that will be used to create an additional image</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><option>--nooverlay</option></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Do not use the overlay directory</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><option>--noimagedir</option></term>
  <listitem>
<para>Do not use the additional image directory</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><option>-h</option>, <option>--help</option></term>
  <listitem>
<para>display help text and exit.</para> 
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><option>--debug</option></term>
  <listitem>
<para>output debug information of the build process</para>
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><option>-v</option>, <option>--verbose</option></term>
  <listitem>
<para>verbose output during the build process</para>

  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='files'><title>FILES</title>
<variablelist remap='TP'>
  <varlistentry>
  <term><filename>/boot/dracut/*.img</filename></term>
  <listitem>
<para></para> <!-- FIXME: blank list item -->
  </listitem>
  </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='authors'><title>AUTHORS</title>
<literallayout remap='.nf'>
Harald Hoyer &lt;harald@redhat.com&gt;
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</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='availability'><title>AVAILABILITY</title>
<para>The dracut-catimages command is part of the dracut package and is available from
<ulink url='http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/dracut/wiki'>http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/dracut/wiki</ulink></para>

</refsect1>

<refsect1 id='see_also'><title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>dracut</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>