Organizing Linux Information!

Problem:
If you have been playing around with your Debian system for a long time i.e. installing, purging, un-installing and re-installing them again you might end up in a situation where anytime you run a program, for example splashy, which triggers the initramfs-tools you might end up with the following message:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools …
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-mycustom does [...]

Welcome to part 2 of Initramfs and Initrd series.
In Part 1 of this series we saw what is initramfs and how to compress and de-compress it. In this part we will see what is an initrd and some of the similarities between initramfs and initrd.
So as mentioned in first part, initramfs replaced the old initrd. [...]

Purpose: We will learn how to decompress and then re-compress an initramfs image from your Debian or Ubuntu systems. I find the whole initramfs and initrd topic to be one of the most fascinating one in Linux. I always wanted to write a series of post on these topics and I think this might be [...]