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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 15:45:07 +0000
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+.TH LSINITRAMFS 8 "2015/12/09" "initramfs\-tools" "System Administration"
+
+.SH NAME
+lsinitramfs \- list content of an initramfs image
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B lsinitramfs
+.RB [ -l ]
+.IR initramfs-file ...
+.br
+.BR lsinitramfs " " -h
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.B lsinitramfs
+command lists the content of given initramfs images. It allows one to quickly check
+the content of one (or multiple) specified initramfs files.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+
+.TP
+.B -h
+Display usage information and exit.
+
+.TP
+.B -l
+Display long and more verbose listing of initramfs content.
+
+.SH USAGE EXAMPLES
+
+List initramfs content of current running kernel:
+
+.PP
+.B lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r)
+
+List content of two initramfs files in verbose mode:
+
+.PP
+.B lsinitramfs -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-grml64 /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-grml64
+
+.SH BUGS
+.BR lsinitramfs
+cannot deal with multiple-segmented initramfs images, except where an
+early (uncompressed) initramfs with system firmware is prepended to
+the regular compressed initramfs.
+
+.SH AUTHOR
+The initramfs-tools are written by Maximilian Attems <maks@debian.org>
+and numerous others.
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR
+.IR initramfs-tools (7),
+.IR mkinitramfs (8),
+.IR unmkinitramfs (8),
+.IR update-initramfs (8).