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/usr/bin/dracut

Initramfs generator using udev

From dracut-ng 112-r5 (enterprise-packages), captured 2026-11-08 by running dracut --help (exit 1). permalink

/usr/bin/dracut: line 494: getopt: command not found
Usage: /usr/bin/dracut [OPTION]... [<initramfs> [<kernel-version>]]

Version: 112

Creates initial ramdisk images for preloading modules

  -h, --help  Display all options

If a [LIST] has multiple arguments, then you have to put these in quotes.

For example:

    # dracut --add-drivers "module1 module2"  ...
Options (1)
OptionDescriptionSource
-h, --helpDisplay all optionshelp

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