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NAME
       dracut-catimages - creates initial ramdisk image by concatenating
       images

SYNOPSIS
       dracut-catimages [OPTION...] <initramfs base image> [<image>...]

DESCRIPTION
       dracut-catimages creates an initial ramdisk image by concatenating
       several images from the command line and /var/lib/dracut/images/*.img

OPTIONS
       -f, --force
           overwrite existing initramfs file.

       -i, --imagedir
           Directory with additional images to add (default:
           /var/lib/dracut/images/)

       -o, --overlaydir
           Overlay directory, which contains additional files that will be
           used to create an additional image

       --nooverlay
           Do not use the overlay directory

       --noimagedir
           Do not use the additional image directory

       -h, --help
           display help text and exit.

       --debug
           output debug information of the build process

       -v, --verbose
           verbose output during the build process

FILES
       /var/lib/dracut/images/*.img
           images to work with

AUTHORS
       Harald Hoyer

AVAILABILITY
       The dracut-catimages command is part of the dracut package and is
       available from  <https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng> ""
       <"https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng">

SEE ALSO
       man:dracut[8]

dracut                            2026-05-13               DRACUT-CATIMAGES(8)