Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:39:53 -0500 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted? |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > >> Apparently not: >> >> {pts/1}% head -2 /proc/mounts >> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 >> /dev/root / reiserfs rw 0 0 >> >> at least it is still mounted. Is there any way to free it?
> rootfs is always present. It's the root, as the name implies :)
He's got two root filesystems, one on top of the other. It should be possible to pivot root rather than mount the second one, thus freeing up the memory from the initramfs.
Chris
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