From: Uwe Kleine-König Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 12:54:41 +0000 (+0200) Subject: use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~1059^2~75 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a7b1a68b25093753155ea752ff865c9dfcf33d79;p=linux-2.6 use the newc archive format as requested by initramfs This is a documentation followup to 2e591bbc0d563e12f5a260fbbca0df7d5810910e Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- diff --git a/Documentation/initrd.txt b/Documentation/initrd.txt index 74f68b35f7..1ba84f3584 100644 --- a/Documentation/initrd.txt +++ b/Documentation/initrd.txt @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ involve special block devices or loopbacks; you merely create a directory on disk with the desired initrd content, cd to that directory, and run (as an example): -find . | cpio --quiet -c -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img +find . | cpio --quiet -H newc -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img Examining the contents of an existing image file is just as simple: