lvmcreate_initrd(8)

lvmcreate_initrd8

Create an initial ramdisk to boot with root on a logical volume

Usage

lvcmreate_initrd

Overview

lvmcreate_initrd creates a new compressed initial ramdisk in /boot/initrd.gz. The initial ramdisk containes all necessary binaries, shared libraries and a linuxrc file to switch to a logical volume based root filesystem. lvmcreate_initrd assumes that /dev/vg00/root contains the root filesystem.

Diagnostics

lvcmcreate_initrd return 0 for success. 1 is returned in all other cases.

Author

Heinz Mauelshagen <[email protected]>

From lvm 0.8i-1 in Debian 2.2 (Potato). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.