inst_dir used the following to try to resolve a relative path: [[ $target = ${target##*/} ]] && target="${file%/*}/$target" inst_dir $target This will only match if $target has no slashes, so something like /usr/bin -> ../sbin would result in: inst_dir ../sbin, or /usr/share -> local/share would result in: inst_dir local/share which is not going to do the right thing. Instead, we resolve any non-absolute link, like so: [[ $target == ${target#/} ]] && target=$(dirname "$file")/$target Thus /usr/bin -> ../sbin results in: inst_dir /usr/../sbin, and /usr/share -> local/share results in: inst_dir /usr/local/share which is what you would expect. --- dracut-functions | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/dracut-functions b/dracut-functions index cc16760..c70e29a 100755 --- a/dracut-functions +++ b/dracut-functions @@ -240,8 +240,8 @@ inst_dir() { # create link as the original local target=$(readlink "$file") ln -sfn "$target" "${initdir}$file" || return 1 - # resolve relative path and recursively install destionation - [[ $target = ${target##*/} ]] && target="${file%/*}/$target" + # resolve relative path and recursively install destination + [[ $target == ${target#/} ]] && target=$(dirname "$file")/$target inst_dir "$target" else # create directory -- 1.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html