Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Andrey Borzenkov <> | Subject | Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted? | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:33:59 +0300 |
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On Monday 17 November 2003 21:03, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:50:34PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote: > > viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > > >On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:06:48AM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote: > > >>Anyone know why it overmounts rather than pivots? > > > > > >Because amount of extra code you lose that way takes more memory than > > >empty roots takes. > > > > > >Remove whatever files you don't need and be done with that. > > > > How do you remove files from the old rootfs after the new one has been > > mounted on top of it? > > You do that before ;-)
would the following work?
pivot_root . /initramfs cd /initramfs && rm -rf *
?? doing it before is rather hard ... you apparently still need something to execute your mounts :)
-andrey
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