Re: [dev] misc projects

From: Sylvain BERTRAND <sylware_AT_legeek.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 14:50:49 +0200

>>and use CPIO text description to avoid being root to create the
>
> You can use paxmirabilis/MirCPIO for that (it’s packaged as “pax”
> in Debian wheezy and newer, in case you wonder). Example:
>
> find * | sort | paxcpio -oC512 -Hsv4cpio -Mdist | xz -2e >initrd
>
> -Mdist normalises all uid:gid to 0:0 (and some other things that
> make for better compression; use -Mnorm to also set all timestamps
> to the epoch, saves a few more bytes).

Strange, I though this feature was available with basic CPIO utils.
Received on Wed Oct 23 2013 - 14:50:49 CEST