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SubjectRe: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted?
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On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:46, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> You can't unmount rootfs. And I'm not sure pivot_root will work, though
> we're quickly reaching the end of my knowledge[1]. Certainly the
> equivalent of "rm -rf *" will work.

The last time I checked (late 2.5.7x), pivot_root off an initramfs
didn't obviously break. This isn't the same as working correctly, but
nothing clearly wrong happened either.

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