Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted?

From: viro
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 13:05:07 EST


On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:50:34PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 ;-)
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