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4 <refentry id='dracutcatimages8'
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6 <refentrytitle>DRACUT-CATIMAGES
</refentrytitle>
7 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
8 <refmiscinfo class='source'
>June
2009</refmiscinfo>
9 <refmiscinfo class='manual'
>Linux
</refmiscinfo>
11 <refnamediv id='name'
>
12 <refname>dracut-catimages
</refname>
13 <refpurpose>creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images
</refpurpose>
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16 <refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis'
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18 <command>dracut-catimages
</command> <arg choice='opt' rep='repeat'
><replaceable>OPTION
</replaceable></arg>
19 <arg choice='plain'
><replaceable><initramfs
</replaceable></arg>
20 <arg choice='plain'
><replaceable>base
</replaceable></arg>
21 <arg choice='plain'
><replaceable>image
></replaceable></arg>
22 <arg choice='opt' rep='repeat'
><replaceable><image
></replaceable></arg>
28 <refsect1 id='description'
><title>DESCRIPTION
</title>
29 <para><command>dracut-catimages
</command>
30 creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command
31 line and /boot/dracut/*.img
</para>
35 <refsect1 id='options'
><title>OPTIONS
</title>
36 <variablelist remap='TP'
>
38 <term><option>-f
</option>,
<option>--force
</option></term>
40 <para>overwrite existing initramfs file.
</para>
44 <term><option>-i
</option>,
<option>--imagedir
</option></term>
46 <para>Directory with additional images to add (default: /boot/dracut/)
</para>
50 <term><option>-o
</option>,
<option>--overlaydir
</option></term>
52 <para>Overlay directory, which contains additional files that will be used to create an additional image
</para>
56 <term><option>--nooverlay
</option></term>
58 <para>Do not use the overlay directory
</para>
62 <term><option>--noimagedir
</option></term>
64 <para>Do not use the additional image directory
</para>
68 <term><option>-h
</option>,
<option>--help
</option></term>
70 <para>display help text and exit.
</para>
74 <term><option>--debug
</option></term>
76 <para>output debug information of the build process
</para>
80 <term><option>-v
</option>,
<option>--verbose
</option></term>
82 <para>verbose output during the build process
</para>
89 <refsect1 id='files'
><title>FILES
</title>
90 <variablelist remap='TP'
>
92 <term><filename>/boot/dracut/*.img
</filename></term>
94 <para></para> <!-- FIXME: blank list item -->
100 <refsect1 id='authors'
><title>AUTHORS
</title>
101 <literallayout remap='.nf'
>
102 Harald Hoyer
<harald@redhat.com
>
103 </literallayout> <!-- .fi -->
106 <refsect1 id='availability'
><title>AVAILABILITY
</title>
107 <para>The dracut-catimages command is part of the dracut package and is available from
108 <ulink url='https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org'
>https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org
</ulink></para>
112 <refsect1 id='see_also'
><title>SEE ALSO
</title>
113 <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>dracut
</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry></para>