Hi,
How can I change default initramfs compression? If I read it right, I can create a new initramfs image with compression of my choice with dracut. But, how can I make a default compression to be always used for every new kernel install?
In arch, I would change /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. How can I do the same with Fedora?
Thanks a lot!
You can specify the compression in /etc/dracut.conf file. Be aware that dracut does not support some of the compression like lzo , lz4 or lzma . But bzip2 , xz and gzip are supported. gzip is the default compression anyway and also an uncompressed image can be generated with cat.
The option is
compress=<compression here> ,
so a compress=xz will compress the image with xz compression ..etc.
I would suggest to uncomment also
logfile=/var/log/dracut.log fileloglvl=6
so you can see any errors or relevant messages and also generate the image with -v option like
sudo dracut --force -v
Asked: 2014-04-22 12:46:52 -0500
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Last updated: Apr 22 '14
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