LIVE-TOOLS(8)

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💖 LIVE-TOOLS(8) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the live-tools manual page — section 8, system admin commands, we love her ✨ this one is literally all about live-update-initramfs and she is so helpful, lemme tell you 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

live-update-initramfs — writes out updated kernel and initrd images to the live media 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

live-update-initramfs is a wrapper that replaces the update-initramfs command, the one that ships with the initramfs-tools package. iconic behavior tbh 👑

So here's the tea 🍓 — on live-systems that have a persistence layer, live-update-initramfs will write out updated kernel and initrd images to the live media. which means?? you can do kernel upgrades from inside the live-system through apt-get without having to manually synchronise the kernel and initrd to the live-medium. no cap, it just handles it for you. main character energy fr fr 💜

and the best part — live-update-initramfs passes through all command-line arguments to the original update-initramfs command. so if you wanna know what all those options actually do, go read update-initramfs.orig.initramfs-tools(8), she has all the deets on the original command's options 📖✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

🌈 HOMEPAGE 🌈

want more info about live-update-initramfs and the whole Debian Live project? say less 💖 you can find it on the homepage at <https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive> and in the manual at <https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/> 🌸

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? not the vibe, but okay let's fix it 🙈 you can report it by submitting a bugreport for the live-tools package in the Bug Tracking System at <http://bugs.debian.org/> — or honestly, just write a mail to the Debian Live mailing list at <debian-live@lists.debian.org> 💌 they're nice, promise.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

live-update-initramfs was written by Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>. king behavior, we stan 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it up 💅

this was live-tools version 5.0~a2-1, dated 2015-09-25 — she's a vintage icon and she still slays ✨🎀💖

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