Debian's initial root filesystem (initrd) is a minimal environment basically responsible for finding your root filesystem on some device in your computer. In this article I'm unwinding what it's composed of and how it is generated so I can use the same mechanisms to place a complete Debian (Emdebian) environment in the initial filesystem removing the need to find the root filesystem device.

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Sometimes you just can't get your hands on a physical machine. So today I had to resize a live filesystem. No rescue CD's or whatever. It is possible :).

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