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akdev1l on March 8, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Build Initramfs Rootless

You can use podman and skip that dance. Just install gen_init_cpio from a rootless container.

blueflow on March 8, 2024 [–]

It seems like podman needs root to enable containers to run mknod.

zygology on March 8, 2024 | [–]

You don't actually have to make a device node, you can just create it directly within the CPIO archive.

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