When is it necessary to rebuild the initramfs?
Issue
- Need to determine when is it necessary or applicable to rebuild the initramfs
- Some disk partition and LVM changes were made with the root filesystem, is rebuilding the initram disk required?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
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