lsinitramfs(8)

lsinitramfs8

List content of an initramfs image

Usage

lsinitramfs [-l] initramfs-file ...

lsinitramfs -h

Overview

The lsinitramfs command lists the content of given initramfs images. It allows one to quickly check the content of one (or multiple) specified initramfs files.

Options

-h

Display usage information and exit.

-l

Display long and more verbose listing of initramfs content.

Usage examples

List initramfs content of current running kernel:

lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r)

List content of two initramfs files in verbose mode:

lsinitramfs -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-grml64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-grml64

Releases

8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9
  5. 10–13

Bugs

lsinitramfs cannot deal with multiple-segmented initramfs images, except where an early (uncompressed) initramfs with system firmware is prepended to the regular compressed initramfs.

Author

The initramfs-tools are written by Maximilian Attems <[email protected]> and numerous others.

From initramfs-tools-core 0.148.4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.