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Re: Size of initrd



On Sat 21 Nov 2020 at 14:52:49 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I have two machines with very similar setups: both running Debian i386
> testing, they actually come from the same install done years ago
> and were cloned at some point in time.
> 
> One of the has /boot/initrd.img files that take about 15MB while the
> other has /boot/initrd.img files that take about 30MB (in both cases,
> they are compressed with `lzma`).
> 
> Any idea what this difference could come from (or how I could try and
> track it down) and how I could fix the size to be more like 15MB?

Perhaps check out /etc/initramfs/initramfs.conf and the contents
of /etc/initramfs/conf.d/ for the value assigned to MODULES.

Cheers,
David.


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