diff --git a/elements/dracut-ramdisk/post-install.d/99-build-dracut-ramdisk b/elements/dracut-ramdisk/post-install.d/99-build-dracut-ramdisk
index 0daf9b38..6805f3ea 100755
--- a/elements/dracut-ramdisk/post-install.d/99-build-dracut-ramdisk
+++ b/elements/dracut-ramdisk/post-install.d/99-build-dracut-ramdisk
@@ -61,3 +61,5 @@ dracut -N \
 
 cp "/boot/vmlinuz-${KERNEL_VERSION}" /tmp/kernel
 chmod o+r /tmp/kernel
+# We don't want to run cleanup (set in mk_build_dir above) when this exits
+trap EXIT