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authorDave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>2012-05-28 21:12:26 +0200
committerDave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>2012-05-30 20:06:39 +0200
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update comments in config
This really should be moved into a man page. FS#30042. Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
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diff --git a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf
index 0f97131..229fa05 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio.conf
+++ b/mkinitcpio.conf
@@ -8,9 +8,8 @@ MODULES=""
# BINARIES
# This setting includes any additional binaries a given user may
-# wish into the CPIO image. This is run first, so it may be used to
-# override the actual binaries used in a given hook.
-# (Existing files are NOT overwritten if already added)
+# wish into the CPIO image. This is run last, so it may be used to
+# override the actual binaries included by a given hook
# BINARIES are dependency parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""
@@ -56,14 +55,12 @@ FILES=""
# HOOKS="base udev usb lvm2 filesystems"
#
## NOTE: If you have /usr on a separate partition, you MUST include the
-# fsck and shutdown hooks.
+# usr, fsck and shutdown hooks.
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata filesystems usbinput fsck"
# COMPRESSION
-# Use this to compress the initramfs image. With kernels earlier than
-# 2.6.30, only gzip is supported, which is also the default. Newer kernels
-# support gzip, bzip2 and lzma. Kernels 2.6.38 and later support xz
-# compression.
+# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gzip compression
+# is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"