diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd/initrd.nix b/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd/initrd.nix
index 1189be3738f4..cf76704577fd 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd/initrd.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/boot/systemd/initrd.nix
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ let
     name = "initrd-bin-env";
     paths = map getBin cfg.initrdBin;
     pathsToLink = ["/bin" "/sbin"];
-    postBuild = concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList (n: v: "ln -s '${v}' $out/bin/'${n}'") cfg.extraBin);
+    postBuild = concatStringsSep "\n" (mapAttrsToList (n: v: "ln -sf '${v}' $out/bin/'${n}'") cfg.extraBin);
   };
 
   initialRamdisk = pkgs.makeInitrdNG {