[entirely off topic]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha strange at nsk.no-ip.org
Sun Nov 5 23:02:12 UTC 2006


On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 03:26:42PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 05 November 2006 12:20 pm, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> >    find . -print0 | cpio -0oHnewc | gzip -9 > ../initrd.img
> 
> Now _that_ is an ugly set of command line options (for cpio).

Thank you. :)

I used to use -0oc. But after wasting a coule of hours trying to make a kernel
recognize a cpio archive, I found that -c doesn't mean exactly the same
thing everywhere. So now I use -Hnewc everywhere.

-- 
lfr
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