====== Dracut ======

[[wp>Dracut (initramfs)|Dracut]] is an event-driven [[wp>initramfs]] infrastructure. ''dracut'' (the tool) is used to create an initramfs image by copying tools and files from an installed system and combining it with the dracut framework, usually found in ''/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d''.

===== Building smaller image =====

By default Dracut builds big initrd because ...
to build smaller initrd, add to your dracut config:

<code bash /etc/dracut.conf>
# build initrd only to boot current hardware
hostonly="yes"
</code>