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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted?
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:33:59 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311172133.59839.arvidjaar@mail.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031117180312.GZ24159@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Monday 17 November 2003 21:03, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk 
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:50:34PM -0500, Chris Friesen wrote:
> > viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk 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 ;-)

would the following work?

pivot_root . /initramfs
cd /initramfs && rm -rf *

?? doing it before is rather hard ... you apparently still need something to 
execute your mounts :)

-andrey 


  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-17 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-16 17:09 Is initramfs freed after kernel is booted? Andrey Borzenkov
2003-11-16 19:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-17 14:39   ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 15:36     ` "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-11-17 15:39       ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 15:46         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-17 18:32           ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-11-17 15:47         ` Kevin P. Fleming
2003-11-17 16:06           ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 16:25             ` Erik Mouw
2003-11-17 17:25             ` viro
2003-11-17 17:47               ` viro
2003-11-17 17:50               ` Chris Friesen
2003-11-17 18:03                 ` viro
2003-11-17 18:33                   ` Andrey Borzenkov [this message]
2003-11-17 19:15                     ` viro
2003-11-19 14:19                       ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-19 15:07                       ` Hannes Reinecke
2003-11-25 18:26                         ` Manuel Estrada Sainz

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