>>and use CPIO text description to avoid being root to create the > > You can use paxmirabilis/MirCPIO for that (it’s packaged as “pax” > in Debian wheezy and newer, in case you wonder). Example: > > find * | sort | paxcpio -oC512 -Hsv4cpio -Mdist | xz -2e >initrd > > -Mdist normalises all uid:gid to 0:0 (and some other things that > make for better compression; use -Mnorm to also set all timestamps > to the epoch, saves a few more bytes).
Strange, I though this feature was available with basic CPIO utils.
