Trying to make a micro-pupplet to furnish usb functionality in dos;
in this regard, had to edit an initrd.gz which began at 1.9 MB. Working in
mint 14, used "extract here"
in gui to get "initrd" from 'initrd.gz". The initrd was 2.7 MB;discarding
that, put the initrd.gz into:
/mnt/casper, to get /mnt/casper/initrd.gz. Then, at the commandline:
gzip -dc /mnt/casper/initrd.gz | cpio -id;
With absolutely no modifications I repacked it with:
find . | cpio --quiet --dereference -o -H newc | gzip -9 > ~/new-initrd.gz.
To my astonishment the new 'round trip' initrd.gz was more tham thirty
megabytes!!
Am I missing somethimg, or is my mint/cpio/gzip broken?
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