NAME

       dracut-catimages - creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating images

SYNOPSIS

       dracut-catimages [OPTION...] <initramfs base image> [<image>...]

DESCRIPTION

       dracut-catimages creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating several images from the command line
       and /boot/dracut/*.img

OPTIONS

       -f, --force
           overwrite existing initramfs file.

       -i, --imagedir
           Directory with additional images to add (default: /boot/dracut/)

       -o, --overlaydir
           Overlay directory, which contains additional files that will be used to create an additional image

       --nooverlay
           Do not use the overlay directory

       --noimagedir
           Do not use the additional image directory

       -h, --help
           display help text and exit.

       --debug
           output debug information of the build process

       -v, --verbose
           verbose output during the build process

FILES

       /boot/dracut/*.img
           images to work with

AUTHORS

       Harald Hoyer

AVAILABILITY

       The dracut-catimages command is part of the dracut package and is available from
       https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng

SEE ALSO

       dracut(8)

dracut                                             07/08/2025                                DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8)