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.TH MKDUMRD 8 "Fri Feb 9 2007"
.SH NAME
mkdumprd \- creates initial ramdisk images for kdump crash recovery
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBmkdumprd\fR [OPTION]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBmkdumprd\fR creates an initial ram file system for use in conjunction with
the booting of a kernel within the kdump framework for crash recovery.
\fBmkdumprds\fR purpose is to create an initial ram filesystem capable of copying
the crashed systems vmcore image to a location specified in \fI/etc/kdump.conf
\fBmkdumprd\fR interrogates the running system to understand what modules need to
be loaded in the initramfs (based on configuration retrieved from
\fI/etc/kdump.conf)\fR
\fBmkdumprd\fR add a new \fBdracut\fR module 99kdumpbase and use \fBdracut\fR
utility to generate the initramfs.
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\fBmkdumprd\fR was not intended for casual use outside of the service
initialization script for the kdump utility, and should not be run manually. If
you require a custom kdump initramfs image, it is suggested that you use the
kdump service infrastructure to create one, and then manually unpack, modify and
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repack the image.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
All options here are passed to dracut directly, please refer \fBdracut\fR docs
for the info.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR dracut (8)