dracut-catimages - creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images
Contents
Availability
The dracut-catimages command is part of the dracut package and is available from
https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ngDescription
dracut-catimages creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command line
and /boot/dracut/*.img
Files
/boot/dracut/*.img
images to work with
Name
dracut-catimages - creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images
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
See Also
dracut(8) dracut 07/08/2025 DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8)
Synopsis
dracut-catimages [OPTION...] <initramfsbaseimage> [<image>...]
