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DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8) dracut DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8)

NAME

dracut-catimages - creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

dracut-catimages creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command line and /boot/dracut/*.img

OPTIONS

-f, --force

overwrite existing initramfs file.

-i, --imagedir

Directory with additional images to add (default: /boot/dracut/)

-o, --overlaydir

Overlay directory, which contains additional files that will be used to create an additional image

--nooverlay

Do not use the overlay directory

--noimagedir

Do not use the additional image directory

-h, --help

display help text and exit.

--debug

output debug information of the build process

-v, --verbose

verbose output during the build process

FILES

/boot/dracut/*.img

images to work with

AUTHORS

Harald Hoyer

AVAILABILITY

The dracut-catimages command is part of the dracut package and is available from <https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng> "" <"https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng">

SEE ALSO

man:dracut[8]

2025-08-13 dracut