Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago (was: switch from IDE to AHCI...)
David Wright composed on 2023-01-28 09:10 (UTC-0600):
> On Sat 28 Jan 2023 at 03:15:11 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote:
>> I thought only Windows was like that, but apparently not always. I keep my
>> initramfs configuration set to =dep.
> And is that the reason behind, and cure for, your mushrooming initrd
> size complaint in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2022/11/msg00331.html
More detail follows:
# inxi -S --vs
inxi 3.3.24-00 (2022-12-10)
System:
Host: big31 Kernel: 6.0.0-6-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Trinity
Distro: Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid
# ls -Gg /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 1582 Sep 12 04:21 /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
# diff -u1 /etc/initramfs-tools/.initramfs.conf.07dpkg-dist /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
--- /etc/initramfs-tools/.initramfs.conf.07dpkg-dist 2022-06-20 16:54:17.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf 2022-09-12 04:21:09.000000000 -0400
@@ -19,3 +19,3 @@
-MODULES=most
+MODULES=dep
# ls -Gg /boot/initrd.img-5.16.0-6* /boot/initrd.img-5.19* /boot/initrd.img-6*
-rw-r--r-- 1 7554203 Apr 22 2022 /boot/initrd.img-5.16.0-6-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 8324160 Sep 12 04:26 /boot/initrd.img-5.19.0-1-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 34597945 Nov 2 17:57 /boot/initrd.img-5.19.0-2-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 23955561 Jan 31 17:58 /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64
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