Re: removing modules

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> The only thing with `MODULES=dep` is that it runs a slightly higher risk
> of ending up with an unbootable system after a hardware or
> filesystem/LVM/MD/partition change.  Just make sure you have some way to
> do a "rescue boot" in those cases (typically via a USB flash key with some
> minimal GNU/Linux system on it), but this comes in handy in many other
> circumstances so I recommend you have that at hand in any case.

BTW, you can try:

    lsinitramfs -l /boot/initrd.img-<FOO>  | sort -n +4

to see the parts of the initrd that are likely to take most of
the space.


        Stefan