Bug 4242 – mkinitrd doesn't honour the IMAGESIZE value

Bug 4242 - mkinitrd doesn't honour the IMAGESIZE value

Summary:	mkinitrd doesn't honour the IMAGESIZE value

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	mkinitrd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-07-28 14:17 EDT by carenas
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-07-29 15:37:42 EDT
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Description carenas 1999-07-28 14:17:42 EDT

on mkinitrd there is an IMAGESIZE variable that is supposed
to hold the Image Size of the file that should be created,
but is not used.

dd if=/dev/zero of=$IMAGE bs=1k count=$IMAGESIZE 2>
/dev/null

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-07-29 15:37:59 EDT

will be fixed in next raw hide release.

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