mkinitfs

Generate an initramfs on Alpine Linux. More information: https://manned.org/mkinitfs.

• Generate an initramfs with the features specified in /etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf:

mkinitfs

• Use a different configuration file:

mkinitfs -c {{path/to/config}}

• Compress the initramfs using the specified compression algorithm (default: gzip):

mkinitfs -C {{gzip|xz|zstd|lz4|none}}

• List files that will be included in the initramfs image:

mkinitfs -l

• List all available features:

mkinitfs -L