Stupid question...Would using LZMA and a tarball reduce the size of your initeamfs?
ZZ On Nov 30, 2011 7:30 PM, "David W Noon" <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:26:56 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: > > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:07:35 +0000, David W Noon wrote: > > > > > > Why do you need e2fsprogs on an initramfs? > > > > > > One needs e2fsck to do a "preen" prior to mounting the required > > > volume(s). > > > > Why not mount root read-only, just like in a non-initramfs system? > > > > Any e2fsck commands will be run during the boot runlevel, before > > remounting root rw. > > Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running inside > an initramfs, one cannot load executable content from mount points -- > only from within the initramfs. So, while it is perfectly possible to > do "ls /mnt/root/sbin/e2fsck" (assuming the root partition has been > mounted ro as /mnt/root), it is not possible to load and execute that > program. [And, yes, I have adjusted the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH shell > variables to address the program and library directories on the mounted > root partition.] After performing a switch_root to the actual root > partition, this restriction is lifted. > > When running without (or with the default) initramfs, the root > partition itself becomes the active filesystem, so loading programs > from /sbin or /bin and libraries from /lib works as expected. > > This might be one of Dale's problems, if he was trying to use commands > from the root filesystem within the initramfs. > -- > Regards, > > Dave [RLU #314465] > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* >
