Technology Blog Dietmar Zlabinger

reading/writing initrd – the initial ram disk of a desktop Linux system:

mkdir tmp
cd tmp
gzip -dc /somepath/initrd.gz | cpio -id

# do the edits on the files

find . | cpio –quiet –dereference -o -H newc | gzip -9 > /somepath/new-initrd.gz

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