Init ram fs is wiped on update

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Hi All,

I’m very new to Fedora (am more from the Ubuntu and recently the NixOS world).

I have set up my Fedora server with full disc encryption. To unlock the disk after a reboot I have scraped together some steps from various sources, the process was like presented here, but with some alterations: Fedora encrypted disk unlocking via SSH :: zaage.IT

Eventually I ran: sudo dracut -f -v --add network and after reboot I could indeed log in (with an ssh key), provide the decryption password and the system would boot into the main install.

However, some days later I updated everything, via Cockpit (which is very nice for someone new to Fedora!), but the system never came back. I investigated a bit and found that my SSH server for providing the decryption password never came online. So it looked like somewhere my special initramfs system got wiped.

After I ran sudo dracut -f -v --add network again everything again worked as expected.

So how can I prevent this wiping from happening? Is there some way to make a “post update hook”, or something?

Thank you!

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In /etc/dracut.conf.d/unlock-disk-over-network.conf put this.

add_dracutmodules+=" network "

Now each time dracut builds a new initramfs the network module will be added.

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This seems to work, I can now also sudo dracut -f -v and see that it adds the network module indeed.

Thanx!