initrd

**elovkoff** · 06-07-2002, 04:46 PM

I noticed that on all my servers there is /initrd directory.
I don't remember creating it. Is that something that is automatically created as a result of some OS finctionality?
thx

**civ1492** · 06-07-2002, 05:04 PM

afaik initrd is an ramdisk image that is created during boot to load some modules - so my guess would be it is just this image that is placed onto the disk

**elovkoff** · 06-07-2002, 05:40 PM

Why it suddenly appears on my disk, I mean what can cause this directory to be automatically created?

**civ1492** · 06-07-2002, 06:40 PM

I think you have the initial ramdisk in your kernel enabled and you are using it ..

**elovkoff** · 06-07-2002, 07:15 PM

O.K.
I just don't remember seeing this directory right after install....but I cannot tell for sure that it wasn't there, next time I'll pay attention to it :-)

**civ1492** · 06-08-2002, 08:28 AM

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O.K.
I just don't remember seeing this directory right after install....but I cannot tell for sure that it wasn't there, next time I'll pay attention to it :-)

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ic .. let me know if its there - i never used initrd :-)