[ ssic-linux-Bugs-1624256 ] mkinitrd seems to run out of space

Bugs item #1624256, was opened at 2006-12-29 12:29
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Category: Installation
Group: v1.9.2
Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: John Hughes (hughesj)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: mkinitrd seems to run out of space

Initial Comment:
Debian OpenSSI 1.9.3 (ish):

mkinitrd -o initrd  2.6.10-ssi-686-smp
[...]
cpio: /tmp/mkinitrd.U2CLBN/./initrd: No space left on device
21853 blocks
initrd:  67.7% -- replaced with initrd.gz
# ls -l initrd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Dec 29 12:24 initrd



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Comment By: John Hughes (hughesj)
Date: 2007-07-31 17:30

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Fixed for 1.9.3

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Comment By: John Hughes (hughesj)
Date: 2006-12-29 14:03

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Buggy script + user error - if the "-o" arg to mkinitrd is not fully
qualified then the mkramdisk script tries to copy the ramdisk into itself.


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