Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted?

From: Chris Friesen
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 09:44:52 EST


Jeff Garzik wrote:
Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

Apparently not:

{pts/1}% head -2 /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / reiserfs rw 0 0

at least it is still mounted. Is there any way to free it?

rootfs is always present. It's the root, as the name implies :)

He's got two root filesystems, one on top of the other. It should be possible to pivot root rather than mount the second one, thus freeing up the memory from the initramfs.

Chris



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