Quotes of the week

The default debian initrd has all *sorts* of useful tools in it. There's certainly enough there to do basic troubleshooting and recovery (including vi!). It's 28MB as an unpacked directory tree, and 8.8MB in initrd form. That doesn't seem like a real issue...

/bin:
busybox cat chroot cpio dd dmesg false fstype gunzip gzip halt insmod ipconfig kill ln losetup ls minips mkdir mkfifo mknod mount nfsmount nuke pivot_root poweroff readlink reboot resume run-init sh sh.shared sleep sync true umount uname

/sbin:
blkid dmsetup modprobe rmmod udevadm udevd

Commands included in /bin/busybox:
[, [[, adjtimex, arping, ash, awk, basename, blockdev, brctl, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cpio, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, df, dirname, dmesg, dnsdomainname, dos2unix, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fgrep, find, fold, free, ftpget, ftpput, getopt, grep, gunzip, gzip, head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, httpd, id, ifconfig, ionice, ip, ipcalc, kill, killall, klogd, last, length, ln, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, logname, logread, losetup, ls, lzcat, lzma, md5sum, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mktemp, more, mount, mt, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nslookup, od, openvt, patch, pidof, ping, ping6, printf, ps, pwd, rdate, readlink, realpath, renice, reset, rev, rm, rmdir, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, run-parts, sed, setkeycodes, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha512sum, sleep, sort, start-stop-daemon, strings, stty, swapoff, swapon, sync, sysctl, syslogd, tac, tail, tar, tee, telnet, test, tftp, time, top, touch, tr, traceroute, traceroute6, true, tty, udhcpc, udhcpd, umount, uname, uncompress, uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unxz, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vi, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, which, who, whoami, xargs, xz, xzcat, yes, zcat