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.TH MKDUMRD 8 "Fri Feb 9 2007" |
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.SH NAME |
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mkdumprd \- creates initial ramdisk images for kdump crash recovery |
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.SH SYNOPSIS |
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\fBmkdumprd\fR [OPTION] |
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.SH DESCRIPTION |
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\fBmkdumprd\fR creates an initial ram file system for use in conjunction with |
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the booting of a kernel within the kdump framework for crash recovery. |
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\fBmkdumprds\fR purpose is to create an initial ram filesystem capable of copying |
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the crashed systems vmcore image to a location specified in \fI/etc/kdump.conf |
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\fBmkdumprd\fR interrogates the running system to understand what modules need to |
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be loaded in the initramfs (based on configuration retrieved from |
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\fI/etc/kdump.conf)\fR |
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\fBmkdumprd\fR add a new \fBdracut\fR module 99kdumpbase and use \fBdracut\fR |
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utility to generate the initramfs. When generating a kdump initramfs, \fBmkdumprd\fR |
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will determine how much disk space is available, if the dump target's available |
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space is not greater than the total system memory, \fBmkdumprd\fR will print a |
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warning to remind that there might not be enough space to save a vmcore. The |
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warning covers extreme scenarios such as the slab explodes with non-zero data or |
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a full vmcore, etc. Therefore, need to prevent users from having minimum disk |
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space for crash dump. |
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\fBmkdumprd\fR was not intended for casual use outside of the service |
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initialization script for the kdump utility, and should not be run manually. If |
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you require a custom kdump initramfs image, it is suggested that you use the |
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kdump service infrastructure to create one, and then manually unpack, modify and |
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repack the image. |
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.SH OPTIONS |
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.TP |
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All options here are passed to dracut directly, please refer \fBdracut\fR docs |
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for the info. |
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.SH "SEE ALSO" |
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.BR dracut (8)
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