centos man page for mkdumprd

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NAME
       mkdumprd - creates initial ramdisk images for kdump crash recovery

SYNOPSIS
       mkdumprd [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION
       mkdumprd creates an initial ram file system for use in conjunction with the booting of a kernel within the kdump framework for crash recov-
       ery.  mkdumprds purpose is to create an initial ram filesystem capable of copying the crashed systems vmcore image to a location  specified
       in /etc/kdump.conf

       mkdumprd  interrogates  the  running system to understand what modules need to be loaded in the initramfs (based on configuration retrieved
       from /etc/kdump.conf)

       mkdumprd add a new dracut module 99kdumpbase and use dracut utility to generate the initramfs.

       mkdumprd was not intended for casual use outside of the service initialization script for the kdump utility, and should not  be	run  manu-
       ally.  If you require a custom kdump initramfs image, it is suggested that you use the kdump service infrastructure to create one, and then
       manually unpack, modify and repack the image.

OPTIONS
       All options here are passed to dracut directly, please refer dracut docs
	      for the info.

SEE ALSO
       dracut(8)

								  Fri Feb 9 2007							MKDUMRD(8)