DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8)

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version 108 · 17 versions
, in fedora 44

💅 DRACUT-CATIMAGES ✨

okok so this is dracut-catimages, from section 8 (admin/system commands) of the manual, bestie. it lives in the dracut package and it's genuinely so simple it's kind of iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

dracut-catimages — literally makes an initial ramdisk image by smashing a bunch of images together. concatenation core. 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dracut-catimages [OPTION...] <initramfs base image> [<image>...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: dracut-catimages builds an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images — the ones you hand it on the command line, plus the ones chillin' in /boot/dracut/*.img. that's it. that's the whole plot. no cap. ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f, --force — overwrite the initramfs file that's already there. like, actually clobber it. be sure bestie 😭
  • -i, --imagedir — directory holding extra images to add. default is /boot/dracut/
  • -o, --overlaydir — an overlay directory, which has extra files in it that get used to create an additional image
  • --nooverlay — don't use the overlay directory
  • --noimagedir — don't use the additional image directory
  • -h, --help — shows the help text and dips out. bye 👋
  • --debug — spits out debug info of the build process
  • -v, --verbose — extra chatty output while the build is happening

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /boot/dracut/*.img — the images it works with 💖

🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

Harald Hoyer 👑 (the main character, honestly)

⭐ AVAILABILITY ⭐

dracut-catimages is part of the dracut package and is available from https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng 🦋

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

  • man:dracut[8] — go read that one too, iykyk
💀 real talk though: -f / --force overwrites an existing initramfs file. that's destructive, so double-check before you send it. 🙈

mwah, that's the whole page! this one came from the dracut package, dated 2026-09-04 — go build something iconic, bestie 💜🎀

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