On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:56:17PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > deloptes composed on 2018-01-10 19:48 (UTC+0100): > > > 7.1 if you need to examine initrd > > > cd /tmp/ > > mkdir test > > cd test/ > > zcat /boot/initrd.img-<version> | cpio -id > > > do whatever you need to do > > > find . ! -name *~ | cpio -H newc --create | gzip -9 > >> /boot/initrd.img-<version> > > If you're only interested in initrd examination, and based upon a simplistic > perusal of its changelog, lsinitramfs has been included in initramfs-tools > probably at least 7 years. openSUSE copied it from Mandriva going on 10 years > ago. https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439103#c7
Moreover, the simple zcat|cpio -i no longer works with stretch's initrd images. They're in a different format, and you *have* to use lsinitramfs or unmkinitramfs to see or extract their contents. On a jessie system, the zcat|cpio -i may still work (not sure about backported kernels though).
