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.\"     Title: dracut-catimages
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.\"      Date: 03/11/2023
.\"    Manual: dracut
.\"    Source: dracut
.\"  Language: English
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.TH "DRACUT\-CATIMAGES" "8" "03/11/2023" "dracut" "dracut"
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.SH "NAME"
dracut-catimages \- creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\fBdracut\-catimages\fR [\fIOPTION\fR\&...] \fI<initramfs base image>\fR [\fI<image>\fR\&...]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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dracut\-catimages creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command line and /boot/dracut/*\&.img
.SH "OPTIONS"
.PP
\fB\-f, \-\-force\fR
.RS 4
overwrite existing initramfs file\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-i, \-\-imagedir\fR
.RS 4
Directory with additional images to add (default: /boot/dracut/)
.RE
.PP
\fB\-o, \-\-overlaydir\fR
.RS 4
Overlay directory, which contains additional files that will be used to create an additional image
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-nooverlay\fR
.RS 4
Do not use the overlay directory
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-noimagedir\fR
.RS 4
Do not use the additional image directory
.RE
.PP
\fB\-h, \-\-help\fR
.RS 4
display help text and exit\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-\-debug\fR
.RS 4
output debug information of the build process
.RE
.PP
\fB\-v, \-\-verbose\fR
.RS 4
verbose output during the build process
.RE
.SH "FILES"
.PP
\fI/boot/dracut/*\&.img\fR
.RS 4
images to work with
.RE
.SH "AUTHORS"
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Harald Hoyer
.SH "AVAILABILITY"
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The dracut\-catimages command is part of the dracut package and is available from \m[blue]\fBhttps://github\&.com/dracutdevs/dracut\fR\m[]
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\fBdracut\fR(8)