Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Andrey Borzenkov" <> | Subject | Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted? | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:36:54 +0300 |
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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. >
my example is after pivot_root. I still have two roots.
To clarify. I want to replace initrd with initramfs. Given all the stuff may be put in it can easily be expanded to a couple of MBs. initrd frees this. I do not want to waste RAM to leave them in initramfs.
thank you
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