What Is Initramfs in Ubuntu?
Contents Initramfs Is Used as the First Root Filesystem That Your Machine Has Access To. It Is Used for Mounting the Real Rootfs Which Has All Your Data. the...
Initramfs is used as the first root filesystem that your machine has access to. It is used for mounting the real rootfs which has all your data. The initramfs carries the modules needed for mounting your rootfs. But you could always compile your kernel to have these modules.
What is initramfs?
The initramfs is a complete set of directories that you would find on a normal root filesystem. It is bundled into a single cpio archive and compressed with one of several compression algorithms. At boot time, the boot loader loads the kernel and the initramfs image into memory and starts the kernel.
Why is initramfs needed?
initramfs is a root filesystem that is embedded into the kernel and loaded at an early stage of the boot process. It is the successor of initrd. It provides early userspace which can do things the kernel can’t easily do by itself during the boot process. Using initramfs is optional.
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