From bd98b884475e66a6a92a8efa0fed1b37576f4366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 13:49:17 +0100

Subject: [PATCH] dracut.8: document INITRD_COMPRESS environment variable

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389775

---

 dracut.8.asc | 7 +++++++

 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dracut.8.asc b/dracut.8.asc

index 3b80000..0e01707 100644

--- a/dracut.8.asc

+++ b/dracut.8.asc

@@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ will not be able to boot.

     program with known-working arguments. If you pass a quoted string with

     arguments, it will be called with exactly those arguments. Depending on what

     you pass, this may result in an initramfs that the kernel cannot decompress.

+    The default value can also be set via the _INITRD_COMPRESS_ environment variable.

 **--no-compress**::

     Do not compress the generated initramfs. This will override any other

@@ -496,6 +497,12 @@ will not be able to boot.

     Specifies the kernel image, which to include in the UEFI executable. The default is

     _/lib/modules/<KERNEL-VERSION>/vmlinuz_ or _/boot/vmlinuz-<KERNEL-VERSION>_

+ENVIRONMENT

+-----------

+

+_INITRD_COMPRESS_::

+    sets the default compression program. See **--compress**.

+

 FILES

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 _/var/log/dracut.log_::