NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | FILES | AUTHOR | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

DRACUT.CONF(5)                     dracut                     DRACUT.CONF(5)

NAME         top

       dracut.conf - configuration file(s) for dracut

SYNOPSIS         top

       /etc/dracut.conf /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf
       /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d/*.conf

DESCRIPTION         top

       dracut.conf is loaded during the initialisation phase of dracut.
       Command line parameter will override any values set here.
       *.conf files are read from /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d and
       /etc/dracut.conf.d. Files with the same name in /etc/dracut.conf.d
       will replace files in /usr/lib/dracut/dracut.conf.d. The files are
       then read in alphanumerical order and will override parameters set in
       /etc/dracut.conf. Each line specifies an attribute and a value. A #
       indicates the beginning of a comment; following characters, up to the
       end of the line are not interpreted.
       dracut command line options will override any values set here.
       Configuration files must have the extension .conf; other extensions
       are ignored.
       add_dracutmodules+=" <dracut modules> "
           Add a space-separated list of dracut modules to call when
           building the initramfs. Modules are located in
           /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d.
       dracutmodules+=" <dracut modules> "
           Specify a space-separated list of dracut modules to call when
           building the initramfs. Modules are located in
           /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d. This option forces dracut to only
           include the specified dracut modules. In most cases the
           "add_dracutmodules" option is what you want to use.
       omit_dracutmodules+=" <dracut modules> "
           Omit a space-separated list of dracut modules to call when
           building the initramfs. Modules are located in
           /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d.
       drivers+=" <kernel modules> "
           Specify a space-separated list of kernel modules to exclusively
           include in the initramfs. The kernel modules have to be specified
           without the ".ko" suffix.
       add_drivers+=" <kernel modules> "
           Specify a space-separated list of kernel modules to add to the
           initramfs. The kernel modules have to be specified without the
           ".ko" suffix.
       force_drivers+=" <list of kernel modules> "
           See add_drivers above. But in this case it is ensured that the
           drivers are tried to be loaded early via modprobe.
       omit_drivers+=" <kernel modules> "
           Specify a space-separated list of kernel modules not to add to
           the initramfs. The kernel modules have to be specified without
           the ".ko" suffix.
       filesystems+=" <filesystem names> "
           Specify a space-separated list of kernel filesystem modules to
           exclusively include in the generic initramfs.
       drivers_dir="<kernel modules directory>"
           Specify the directory, where to look for kernel modules
       fw_dir+=" :<dir>[:<dir> ...] "
           Specify additional directories, where to look for firmwares,
           separated by :
       install_items+=" <file>[ <file> ...] "
           Specify additional files to include in the initramfs, separated
           by spaces.
       install_optional_items+=" <file>[ <file> ...] "
           Specify additional files to include in the initramfs, separated
           by spaces, if they exist.
       compress="{bzip2|lzma|xz|gzip|lzo|lz4|<compressor [args ...]>}"
           Compress the generated initramfs using the passed compression
           program. If you pass it just the name of a compression program,
           it will call that program with known-working arguments. If you
           pass arguments, it will be called with exactly those arguments.
           Depending on what you pass, this may result in an initramfs that
           the kernel cannot decompress.
       do_strip="{yes|no}"
           Strip binaries in the initramfs (default=yes)
       do_prelink="{yes|no}"
           Prelink binaries in the initramfs (default=yes)
       hostonly="{yes|no}"
           Host-Only mode: Install only what is needed for booting the local
           host instead of a generic host and generate host-specific
           configuration.
       hostonly_cmdline="{yes|no}"
           If set, store the kernel command line arguments needed in the
           initramfs
       persistent_policy="<policy>"
           Use <policy> to address disks and partitions.  <policy> can be
           any directory name found in /dev/disk. E.g. "by-uuid", "by-label"
       tmpdir="<temporary directory>"
           Specify temporary directory to use.
           Warning
           If chrooted to another root other than the real root device, use
           --fstab and provide a valid /etc/fstab.
       use_fstab="{yes|no}"
           Use /etc/fstab instead of /proc/self/mountinfo.
       add_fstab+=" <filename> "
           Add entries of <filename> to the initramfs /etc/fstab.
       add_device+=" <device> "
           Bring up <device> in initramfs, <device> should be the device
           name. This can be useful in hostonly mode for resume support when
           your swap is on LVM an encrypted partition.
       mdadmconf="{yes|no}"
           Include local /etc/mdadm.conf (default=yes)
       lvmconf="{yes|no}"
           Include local /etc/lvm/lvm.conf (default=yes)
       fscks=" <fsck tools> "
           Add a space-separated list of fsck tools. If nothing is
           specified, the default is: "umount mount /sbin/fsck* xfs_db
           xfs_check xfs_repair e2fsck jfs_fsck reiserfsck btrfsck". The
           installation is opportunistic (non-existing tools are ignored).
       nofscks="{yes|no}"
           If specified, inhibit installation of any fsck tools.
       ro_mnt="{yes|no}"
           Mount / and /usr read-only by default.
       kernel_cmdline="parameters"
           Specify default kernel command line parameters
       kernel_only="{yes|no}"
           Only install kernel drivers and firmware files. (default=no)
       no_kernel="{yes|no}"
           Do not install kernel drivers and firmware files (default=no)
       acpi_override="{yes|no}"
           [WARNING] ONLY USE THIS IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
           Override BIOS provided ACPI tables. For further documentation
           read Documentation/acpi/initrd_table_override.txt in the kernel
           sources. Search for ACPI table files (must have .aml suffix) in
           acpi_table_dir= directory (see below) and add them to a separate
           uncompressed cpio archive. This cpio archive gets glued
           (concatenated, uncompressed one must be the first one) to the
           compressed cpio archive. The first, uncompressed cpio archive is
           for data which the kernel must be able to access very early (and
           cannot make use of uncompress alogrithms yet) like microcode or
           ACPI tables (default=no).
       acpi_table_dir="<dir>"
           Directory to search for ACPI tables if acpi_override= is set to
           yes.
       early_microcode="{yes|no}"
           Combine early microcode with ramdisk (default=no)
       stdloglvl="{0-6}"
           Set logging to standard error level.
       sysloglvl="{0-6}"
           Set logging to syslog level.
       fileloglvl="{0-6}"
           Set logging to file level.
       logfile="<file>"
           Path to log file.
       show_modules="{yes|no}"
           Print the name of the included modules to standard output during
           build.
       i18n_vars="<variable mapping>"
           Distribution specific variable mapping. See
           dracut/modules.d/10i18n/README for a detailed description.
       i18n_default_font="<fontname>"
           The font <fontname> to install, if not specified otherwise.
           Default is "LatArCyrHeb-16".
       i18n_install_all="{yes|no}"
           Install everything regardless of generic or hostonly mode.
       reproducible="{yes|no}"
           Create reproducible images.
       loginstall="<DIR>"
           Log all files installed from the host to <DIR>.
       uefi_stub="<FILE>"
           Specifies the UEFI stub loader, which will load the attached
           kernel, initramfs and kernel command line and boots the kernel.
           The default is
           /lib/systemd/boot/efi/linux<EFI-MACHINE-TYPE-NAME>.efi.stub or
           /usr/lib/gummiboot/linux<EFI-MACHINE-TYPE-NAME>.efi.stub
       kernel_image="<FILE>"
           Specifies the kernel image, which to include in the UEFI
           executable. The default is /lib/modules/<KERNEL-VERSION>/vmlinuz
           or /boot/vmlinuz-<KERNEL-VERSION>

FILES         top

       /etc/dracut.conf
           Old configuration file. You better use your own file in
           /etc/dracut.conf.d/.
       /etc/dracut.conf.d/
           Any /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf file can override the values in
           /etc/dracut.conf. The configuration files are read in
           alphanumerical order.

AUTHOR         top

       Harald Hoyer

SEE ALSO         top

       dracut(8) dracut.cmdline(7)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the dracut (event driven initramfs
       infrastructure) project.  Information about the project can be found
       at ⟨https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page⟩.  If you have
       a bug report for this manual page, send it to
       initramfs@vger.kernel.org.  This page was obtained from the project's
       upstream Git repository 
       ⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git⟩ on 2017-07-05.
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dracut                           02/18/2017                   DRACUT.CONF(5)

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